Ibn Ḥibbān, however, differed, stating after the hadith—as found in al-Iḥsān (8/298):

“Saʿīd ibn Jubayr heard Abū Hurayrah when he was ten years old.”

I do not know what evidence he relied on for this.

In any case, I have found a strong corroborating report for it. Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith said:

“A man known as Abū ʿAlqamah, an ally of Banū Hāshim, arrived, and among what he related to us was: ‘I heard Abū Hurayrah say:

“Among the signs of the Hour are that avarice and indecency will become manifest; the traitor will be entrusted, and the trustworthy person will be betrayed; garments will appear which women wear while clothed yet naked; and the tuḥūt will rise above the wuʿūl. Is this what you, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, heard from my beloved?’ He said, ‘Yes, by the Lord of the Kaʿbah!’ We asked, ‘What are the tuḥūt?’ He replied, ‘The base among men and those from obscure households, who are raised above their righteous people. The wuʿūl are the people of virtuous households.’”

Al-Ṭabarānī also recorded it in al-Awsaṭ (1/42/2/735): Abū Ayyūb Aḥmad ibn Bashīr al-Ṭayālisī narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn narrated to us; Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad narrated to us from Ibn Jurayj, who said: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith informed me … He said:

“No one narrated this hadith from Ibn Jurayj except Ḥajjāj.”

I say: He is al-Aʿwar al-Maṣīṣī. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in Muqaddimat al-Fatḥ (pp. 395–396):

“He was one of the most reliable transmitters; they unanimously declared him trustworthy. Abū al-ʿArab al-Ṣiqillī mentioned him in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ because he changed in his final years and became confused. Yet this confusion did not harm him, for Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī related that Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn forbade anyone from entering upon him after he became confused. All six canonical compilers narrated from him.”