21) Chapter: (What is said regarding) the disappearance of the (religious) knowledge and the appearance of (religious) ignorance
Narrated Anas:
I will narrate to you a Hadith and none other than I will tell you about after it. I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)
saying: From among the portents of the Hour are (the following):
-1. Religious knowledge will decrease (by the death of religious learned men).
-2. Religious ignorance will prevail.
-3. There will be prevalence of open illegal sexual intercourse.
-4. Women will increase in number and men will decrease in number so much so that fifty women
will be looked after by one man.
21) باب رَفْعِ الْعِلْمِ وَظُهُورِ الْجَهْلِ
وَقَالَ رَبِيعَةُ لاَ يَنْبَغِي لأَحَدٍ عِنْدَهُ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ أَنْ يُضَيِّعَ نَفْسَهُ.
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ لأُحَدِّثَنَّكُمْ حَدِيثًا لاَ يُحَدِّثُكُمْ أَحَدٌ بَعْدِي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ . " مِنْ أَشْرَاطِ السَّاعَةِ أَنْ يَقِلَّ الْعِلْمُ، وَيَظْهَرَ الْجَهْلُ، وَيَظْهَرَ الزِّنَا، وَتَكْثُرَ النِّسَاءُ وَيَقِلَّ الرِّجَالُ، حَتَّى يَكُونَ لِخَمْسِينَ امْرَأَةً الْقَيِّمُ الْوَاحِدُ "
