the words: “Women are but the counterparts of men,” etc. Thus, the apparent discontinuity in the chain is removed, and the hadith’s authenticity is established.

Note: al-Manāwī also attributed the hadith of ʿĀʾishah to al-Dāraquṭnī, under ritual purity, but I could not find it in his Sunan. This requires investigation.

2864 — “After me, men will assume authority over your affairs; they will extinguish the sunnah, introduce a blameworthy innovation, and delay the prayer beyond its appointed times.” Ibn Masʿūd said, “What should I do if I live to encounter them?” He said, “There is no obedience, O Ibn Umm ʿAbd, to one who disobeys Allah.” He said this three times.

Ibn Mājah (2865), al-Bayhaqī (3/127) in al-Dalāʾil (6/396–397), Aḥmad, and his son in al-Zawāʾid (no. 3790)—whose wording is cited here—reported it. Ibn ʿAsākir (14/165/2) and al-Ṭabarānī in his Muʿjam (10/213/10361) also reported it from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father, from ʿAbd Allah, attributed to the Prophet. I say: Its chain is authentic; all its narrators are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections. It has already been discussed under hadith 590.

2865 — “Indeed, I am holding you by your waistbands to keep you from the Fire, while you rush headlong into it as moths and locusts rush headlong. Soon I shall release your waistbands. I shall precede you to the Basin, and you will come to me, some together and others separately—all of you—and I shall recognize you by your names and distinguishing features, just as a man recognizes a strange camel among his own camels; then you will be led