Predictions in the Quran and the Sunnah (part 2)

11) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted that Umm Haram bint Milhaan would participate in a naval war, and this

happened. There is a now a masjid in Cyprus, purported to be where Umm Haram died, called Halla Sultan

Teke. She was from the first group of Muslims to ever be involved in naval warfare.

a. Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) went to the bint Milhaan and reclined there (and

slept) and then (woke up) smiling. She asked, "O Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص)! What makes you smile?" He replied,

(I dreamt that) some people amongst my followers were sailing on the green sea in Allah's Cause, resembling

kings on thrones." She said, "O Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص)! Invoke Allah to make me one of them." He said, "O

Allah! Let her be one of them." Then he (slept again and woke up and) smiled. She asked him the same question

and he gave the same reply. She said, "Invoke Allah to make me one of them." He replied, ''You will be amongst

the first group of them; you will not be amongst the last." Later on she married 'Ubada bin As-Samit and then

she sailed on the sea with bint Qaraza, Mu'awiya's wife (for Jihad). On her return, she mounted her riding

animal, which threw her down breaking her neck, and she died on falling down.

12) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted that Ammar ibn Yaasir would be martyred in a civil war. When the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) was alive and made this prediction, the companions had no idea that they would soon be raising their swords against each other. The phrase “He will be killed by a rebellious/ aggressive/ transgressing group” is used in all the narrations of this hadith, in all its different versions. Ammar was killed at the battle of Siffin, fighting on the side of Ali ibn Abu Taalib, against Mu’awiyya ibn Abi Sufyan.

a. Abdullah ibn Haarith ibn Abdul Mutallib said: I was travelling with Mu’awiyyah when in his exit from the battle of Siffin, sitting between him and Amr Ibn Al Aas…Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Al Aas said “Oh my father (Amr ibn Al Aas), I heard the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) say: “Woe to you, O son of Summayyah (Ammar), the transgressing party will kill you””… So Amr ibn Al Aas said to Mu’awiyyah: “Do you not hear what this one (his son) has said, so Mu’awiyyah said: “Don’t continue to come to us with this, did we kill him? Indeed, the ones who killed him were the ones who brought him (to battle)!”

Note: This narration is very interesting, because it gives us some extra information. The fact that Abdullah was coming to his father with this, and also the multiple other narrations of this hadith, suggest that it was very well known among the companions as something the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) had said. Further, there is the fact that Mu’awiyya didn’t want to be the one referred to as the “Transgressing, rebellious group” by the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) so he tried to interpret the hadith to fit his narrative. This suggests he also was well aware of this hadith being in circulation. He uses the phrase “don’t CONTINUE to come to us with this”.

b. Narrated `Ikrima: that Ibn `Abbas told him and `Ali bin `Abdullah to go to Abu Sa`id and listen to some of his narrations; So they both went (and saw) Abu Sa`id and his brother irrigating a garden belonging to them. When he saw them, he came up to them and sat down with his legs drawn up and wrapped in his garment and said, "(During the construction of the mosque of the Prophet) we carried the adobe of the mosque, one brick at a time while `Ammar used to carry two at a time. The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) passed by `Ammar and removed the dust off his head and said, "May Allah be merciful to `Ammar. He will be killed by a rebellious aggressive group. `Ammar will invite them to (obey) Allah and they will invite him to the (Hell) fire."

c. Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri reported: One who is better than I (Abu Qatada) informed me, that Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said to `Ammar as he was digging the ditch (on the ocassion of the Battle of the Ditch) wiping over his head: O son of Summayya, you will be involved in trouble and a group of the rebels would kill you.

d. This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Umm Salama that Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said to 'Ammar: A group of rebels would kill you.

e. Narrated Abu Hurairah: that the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: "Rejoice, 'Ammar, the transgressing party shall kill you."

13) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted that a ‘great liar’ and ‘a killer/oppressor’ would appear from the people of Banu Thaqif. The companions interpreted the great liar as being Mukhtar Al Thaqafi and the killer as Hajjaj ibn Yusuf Al Thaqafi.1 Both of them came out of the tribe of Thaqif while the companions were still alive, and both of them did as the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said they would. Mukhtar Al Thaqafi used to claim that revelation would come to him, as is it does to a Prophet, and Al Hajjaj is infamous for laying siege to the Ka’bah, killing thousands, and crucifying Abdullah Ibn Al-Zubair.

a. Ibn 'Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: "In Thaqif there will be a great liar and destroyer."

b. Abu Naufal reported: I saw (the dead body) of Abdullah b. Zubair hanging on the road of Medina

(leading to Mecca). The Quraish passed by it and other people too, that Abdullah b. Umar happened to pass by it. He stood up there and said: May there be peace upon you, Abu Khubaib (the Kunya of Abdullah b. Zubair), may there be peace upon you Abu Khubaib, may there be peace upon you, Abu Khubaib! By Allah, I used to forbid you from this; by Allah, I used to forbid you from this, by Allah I used to forbid you from this. By Allah, so far as I know, you had been very much devoted to fasting and prayer and you had been paying very much care to cementing the ties of blood. By Allah, the

group to which you belong (are labelled) as (a) wicked (person) is indeed a fine group. Then 'Abdullah b. 'Umar went away. The stand 'Abdullah (b. 'Umar) took in regard to the inhuman treatment (meted out to 'Abdullah b. Zubair) and his words (in that connection) were conveyed to Hajjaj (b. Yusuf) and (as a consequence of that) he (the body of Abdullah b. Zubair) was brought down from the stump (the scaffold) by which it was hanging and thrown into the graves of the Jews. He (Hajjaj) sent (his messenger) to Asma' (bint Abu Bakr, 'Abdullah's mother). But she refused to come. He again sent the messenger to her with the message that she must come, otherwise he would bring her forcibly catching hold of her hair. But she again refused and said: By Allah, I will not come to you until you send one to me who would drag me by pulling my hair. Thereupon he said: Bring me my shoes. He put on his shoes and walked on quickly swollen with vanity and pride until he came to her and said: How do you find what I have done with the enemy of Allah? She said: I find that you wronged him in this world, whereas he has spoiled your next life. It has been conveyed to me that you used to call him ('Abdullah b. Zubair) as the son of one having two belts. By Allah, I am indeed (a woman) of two belts. One is that with the help of which I used to suspend high the food of Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) and that of Abu Bakr (making it out of the reach) of animals and, so far as the second belt is concerned, that is the belt which no woman can dispense with. Verily Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) told us that in Thaqif, there would be born a great liar and great murderer. The liar we have seen, and as far as the murderer is concerned, I do not find anyone else besides you. 'Thereupon he (Hajjaj) stood up and did not give any reply to her.

14) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted a fire in the Hijaz region, and described it in the hadith. A fire matching the description occurred in the year 654 AH. Many scholars reported this incident, but I will just mention a few here. Bear in mind that there are many more reports of this incident occurring, not just the following ones mentioned.

- Ibn Kathir (d. 774 AH): “Then the year 654 AH began, in which there appeared fire in the land of the Hijaz by which the necks of the camels in Busra were illuminated, as it says in the agreed-upon hadith. Shaykh al-‘Allaamah al-Haafiz Shihaab ad-Deen Abu Shaamah al-Maqdisi spoke at length about that in his adh-Dhayl wa Sharhuhu, based on many letters that came to Damascus from the Hijaz, describing that fire that had been witnessed and seen, and how it emerged, and the story thereof.”2

- Al Nawawi (d. 676 AH): “In our time, a fire came out of the city of Medina in the year 654 AH, and it was a huge fire that came out of the East side of Medina, behind Al-Harra, and knowledge of it became extremely widespread in Al-Shaam (modern day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan) and other countries too and I heard about it directly from people in Medina.”3

- Imam Al-Qurtubi (d. 672 AH): “A fire came out from the Hijaz, from Medina, it began with a huge earthquake on the night on Wednesday, after Darkness, on the third day of Jumadah Al-Aakhira, in the year of 654 AH and it continued on until the late morning on Friday…”4

- Abu Shammah Al Maqdisi (d. 665 AH) said in Dhayl Al-Rawdatayn: “It came out on the first Friday of Jumadah Al-Akhira, from East of Medina, a great fire, between it and Medina was half a day. It erupted from the Earth and out of it came a valley of fire, until it was bordering the mountain of Uhud.5

a. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said, "The Hour will not be established till a fire will come out of the land of Hijaz, and it will throw light on the necks of the camels at Busra."

15) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted that Arabia would ‘go back’ to being meadows and rivers in the future.

a. Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص): The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and until the land of Arabia goes back to being meadows and rivers.

Comments: This phraseology- ‘until it GOES BACK’ -used by the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) would have been very odd for the Arabs. They lived in a barren desert, but the phrase ‘goes back’ implicitly states that at one point in time, the land of Arabia was made up of ‘meadows and rivers’ and was not the barren desert that the

Arabs knew. Recent research has shown that at points in time, Arabia was not a desert, but was lush savannahs and woodlands6, 7, and it went through multiple phases of being green, then dry desert over thousands of years. The question is, how would the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) have known this if he wasn’t a true Prophet? As far as the Arabs were concerned, Arabia was and always had been a desert. He could have just said instead ‘until Arabia BECOMES meadows and rivers’, or not even have mentioned this at all.

16) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted cars and that Muslim Women will be clothed but naked, and have humps on their head. This second part is something common, as we see many women covering with Hijab but wearing tight clothes.

a. Abdullah ibn Umar reported that the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: “There will be towards the end of my Ummah, men riding on ‘Surooj’ which look like ‘Rihaal’, arriving right at the doors of the mosques, their women will be naked but clothed and on their heads is hair that is high, like the hump of the Bukht camel…”

Comments: In the Arabic version of this hadith the words Surooj and Rihaal are used. If we look up the meanings of these words in the classical Arabic dictionaries we will find definitions along the following lines:

- Surooj- the saddle that goes on the back of the horse or the camel - Rihaal- Everything that is prepared for travel from entertainment, to the reins, to the saddle.

Al Albani has a lengthy commentary on this hadith, where he discussed why he thought that this hadith was talking about cars when it mentioned ‘Surooj which look like Rihaal’, as the classical dictionary definitions match, and also because of what we see today- namely that we see people always pulling up in their cars right at the doors of the mosques, and letting their women folk out.8.

b. Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) having said this: Two are the types of the denizens of Hell whom I did not see: people having flogs like the tails of the ox with them and they would be beating people, and the women who would be dressed but appear to be naked, who would be inclined (to evil) and make their husbands incline towards it. Their heads would be like the humps of the bukht camel inclined to one side. They will not enter Paradise and they would not smell its odour whereas its odour would be smelt from such and such distance.

17) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted that the barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds would compete in building tall buildings.

a. 'Abdullah bin 'Umar said:"Umar bin Al-Khattab told me: 'While we were with the Messenger of Allah [SAW] one day, a man appeared before us whose clothes were exceedingly white and whose hair was exceedingly black…He said: "Tell me about the Hour." He said: "The one who is asked about it does not know more about it than the one who is asking." He said: "Then tell me about its signs." He said: "When a slave woman gives birth to her mistress, when you see the barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in making tall buildings.'" 'Umar said: 'Three (days) passed, then the Messenger of Allah [SAW] said to me: "O 'Umar, do you know who the questioner was?" I said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "That was Jibril, peace be upon him, who came to you to teach you your religion."

b. It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said: "One day the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) appeared among the people. A man came to him and…He said: "O Messenger of Allah, when will the Hour be?' He said: 'The one who is being asked about it does not know more than the one who is asking. But I will tell you about its signs. When the slave woman gives birth to her mistress that is one of its signs. When the shepherds compete in constructing tall buildings that is one of its signs. And there are five things which no one knows except Allah.' Then the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) recited the Verse: "Verily, Allah, with Him (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour, He sends down the rain, and knows that which is in the wombs. No person knows what he will earn tomorrow, and no person knows in what land he will die. Verily, Allah is All-Knower, All-Aware (of things)."

c. It was narrated that Abu Hurairah and Abu Dharr said: "The Messenger of Allah [SAW] would sit among his Companions and if a stranger came, he would not know which of them was he (the Prophet [SAW]) until he asked. So we suggested to the Messenger of Allah [SAW] that we should make a dais for him so that any stranger would know him if he came to him. So we built for him a bench made of clay on which he used to sit. (One day) we were sitting and the Messenger of Allah [SAW] was sitting in his spot, when a man came along who was the most handsome and good-smelling of all people, and it was as if no dirt had ever touched his garments. He came near the edge of the rug and greeted him, saying: 'Peace be upon you, O Muhammad!' He returned the greeting, and he said: 'Shall I come closer, O Muhammad?' He came a little closer, and he kept telling him to come closer, until he put his hands on the knees of the Messenger of Allah [SAW]. He said: 'O Muhammad, tell me, what is Islam?' He said: 'Islam means to worship Allah and not associate anything with Him; to establish Salah, to pay Zakah, to perform Hajj to the House, and to fast Ramadan.' He said: 'If I do that, will I have submitted (be a Muslim)?' He said: 'Yes.' He said: 'You have spoken the truth,' we found it odd. He said: 'O Muhammad, tell

me, what is faith?' He said: 'To believe in Allah [SWT], His Angels, the Book, the Prophets, and to believe in the Divine Decree.' He said: 'If I do that, will I have believed?' The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Yes.' He said: 'You have spoken the truth.' He said: 'O Muhammad, tell me, what is Al-Ihsan?' He said: 'To worship Allah [SWT] as if you can see Him, for although you cannot see Him, He can see you.' He said: 'You have spoken the truth.' He said: 'O Muhammad, tell me about the Hour.' He lowered his head and did not answer. Then he repeated the question, and he did not answer. Then he repeated the question (a third time) and he did not answer. Then he raised his head and said: 'The one who is being asked does not know more than the one who is asking. But it has signs, by which it may be known. When you see the herdsmen competing in building tall buildings, when you see the barefoot and naked ruling the Earth, when you see a woman giving birth to her mistress. Five things which no one knows except Allah [SWT]. Verily, Allah, with Him (alone) is the knowledge of the Hour up to His saying: 'Verily, Allah is All-Knower, All-Aware (of things).' Then he said: 'No, by the One who sent Muhammad with the truth, with guidance and glad tidings, I did not know him more than any man among you. That was Jibril, peace be upon you, who came down in the form of Dihyah Al-Kalbi.'"

Comments: This hadith is very explicit in that it is talking about a destitute people who will be competing to build the tallest buildings. Up until the discovery of oil in the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabs there were poor and subsisted on a nomadic lifestyle, shepherding animals and farming pearls. Now the tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The tallest building by 2020 will be the Jeddah tower, which is under construction at the moment in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. How could the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) such a thing. He correctly predicted 3 things: the fact of competition between the Arabs in this matter, what the actual matter is (building tall buildings) and the type of people who would be doing the competing (the barefoot, destitute, shepherds). These are 3 separate variables, any of which could easily not have happened as the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted. Bear in mind as well, that at the time of the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص), the concept of buildings that were more than two stories high was completely foreign, so to even make such a prediction in the first place would have been completely outlandish. 18) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted a number of things in one hadith towards the end of times… a) The child will be angry b) There will be hot rain. (“wa yakoon al mattaru ghaydhan” The word “ghaydh” in classical Arabic dictionaries has the definition of being extremely hot. Could this be a reference to acid rain?) c) Dishes will be communicating (could this be a reference to satellite dishes, as they are literally dishes, which communicate with eachother?) d) Men will be pleased with men (sexually) e) Woman will be pleased with women (sexually) f) Music will be widespread

g) Alcohol will be drunk widely h) The number of illegitimate children will increase i) A man will be divorced from his wife but then continue living with her. At the end of this narration, Ibn Masud (the 1st narrator) asked the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) if these issues would be among the Muslims and the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said ‘yes’.

19) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted the use of headphones? This is just a guess, and I couldn’t find any precedence for it among the scholars. But it seems to fit the description of headphones.

a. It was narrated from Abu Malik Ash’ari that the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: “People among my

nation will drink wine, calling it by another name, and musical instruments will be played on their

heads and singing girls (will sing for them). Allah will cause the earth to swallow them up, and will

turn them into monkeys and pigs.”

20) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted an increase in the use of interest, such that no one will be able to escape its touch. This is clearly what we are seeing in modern times.

a. It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said: "The Messenger of Allah said: "There will come a time when there will be no one left who does not consume Riba (interest), and whoever does not consume it will nevertheless be affected by residue."

21) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted globalisation. This is the interpretation of the hadith by Shaykh Hamood Al Tuwaijiri who said in his book “Ithaaf Al Jamaa’a” that he views this hadith as talking about the globalisation of the markets due to electronics, the internet and the fact that it is now so easy to travel from one side of the planet to the other.9

a. Abu Huraira narrated that the Messenger of God (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: “The hour will not be established until knowledge is taken away, and corruption in the land will be widespread, and lying will become widespread, and time will become closer and the markets will become closer, and Al- Harj will increase.” It was said “what is Al Harj”, he (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: “Killing”.

22) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted that people will start to adorn the mosques and make them overly extravagant as the hour reaches close.

a. It was narrated from Anas that the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: "One of the portents of the Hour will be that people will show off in building Masjids."

b. Abdullah ibn Abbas narrated that the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: I was not commanded to build high

mosques. Ibn Abbas said: You will certainly adorn them as the Jews and Christians did.

23) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted the rise of rise of sexually transmitted infections.

a. It was narrated that ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar said: “The Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) turned to us and said: ‘O Muhajirun, there are five things with which you will be tested, and I seek refuge with Allah lest you live to see them: Sexual Immorality never appears among a people to such an extent that they commit it openly, but plagues and diseases that were never known among the predecessors will spread among them…”

Note: I couldn’t find any scholarly opinions on this hadith from the modern period. Some may jump to the conclusion that this is referring to HIV. It may or may not be, or it could be referring to any number of other STI’s. Without any other information (which I haven’t looked in depth for) it would be difficult to glean anything definitive from this hadith if we are being honest with ourselves. 24) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) may have predicted the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the positioning of the non-Muslims in the Middle East.

a. Naheek ibn Sarim Al-Saakoonee that the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: “You will fight the mushrikeen until the remnants of you fight the Dajjal, on a river in Jordan, you are to the East of it, and they are to the West of it.” (The Companion) Al Saakoonee said:”I didn’t know where Jordan was on the Earth at that time.”

Notes:

- The Jordan River currently separates Jordan and Israel. Jordan, which is a Muslim country, is to the East of the river, and Israel, is to the West of the river.

- The companion narrating the hadith, Naheek ibn Sarim, said that he had no clue where Jordan was, as it wasn’t a place at that time. However, I’m not sure if this is the case, as there is another authentic hadith where the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) explicitly mentions ‘Jordan’. The hadith of the Jassasah in Tirmidhi (2253). However there are two things to note here:

1) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) was quoting the Jassasah speaking in that hadith, so it is possible that he didn’t actually know where Jordan was, and was just quoting what the Jassasa said.

2) This hadith on authority on Naheek ibn Sarim has been declared weak by the scholars, due to the presence of Muhammad ibn Abaan Al-Qurashee in the chain, who, according to Al Dhahabi in Al-Meezan, was declared weak by Ibn Maeen, Abu Dawud and Al-Bukhari.

- Because of the uncertainties surrounding this hadith, I’m not sure that it can be used to show anything definitive.

25) The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) predicted a number of general trends towards the end of time within the Muslim community which are clearly in fruition: - Increase in music - Increase in illegal sexual intercourse - Increase in intoxicants being drunk - Men will wear silk and gold (this is prohibited in Islam)

a. Narrated Abu 'Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari: that he heard the Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) saying, "From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful…”

b. It was narrated from Abu Malik Ash’ari that the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: “People among my

nation will drink wine, calling it by another name, and musical instruments will be played for them and singing girls (will sing for them). Allah will cause the earth to swallow them up, and will turn them into monkeys and pigs.”

c. Abu Dawud said: An old man of the people of Wasit narrated from Abu Mansur al-Harith bin Mansur saying: I heard Sufyan Al-Thawri who was asked about al-dadhi. He said: The Messenger of Allah .said: Some of my people will assuredly drink wine calling it by another name (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص)

d. 'Imran bin Husain narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: "In this Ummah there shall be

collapsing of the earth, transformation and Qadhf." A man among the Muslims said: "O Messenger of Allah! When is that?" He said: "When singing slave-girls, music, and drinking intoxicants spread."

e. Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: "When Al-Fai' is distributed(preferentially), trust is a spoil of war, Zakat is a fine, knowledge is sought for other than the(sake of the) religion, a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, he is close to his friend and far from his father, voices are raised in the Masajid, tribes are led by their wicked, the leader of the people is the most despicable among them, the most honored man is the one whose evil the people are afraid of, singing slave-girls and music spread, intoxicants are drunk, and the end of this Ummah curses its beginning- then anticipate a red wind, earthquake, collapsing of the earth, transformation, Qadhf, and the signs follow in succession like gems of a necklace whose string is cut and so they fall in succession."

f. 'Ali bin Abi Talib narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) said: "When my Ummah does fifteen things, the afflictions will occur in it." It was said: "What are they O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "When Al-Maghnam (the spoils of war) are distributed (preferentially), trust is usurped, Zakah is a fine, a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, he is kind to his friend and abandons his father, voices are raised in the Masajid, the leader of the people is the most despicable among them, the most honored man is the one whose evil the people are afraid of, intoxicants are drunk, silk is worn (by males), there is a fascination for singing slave-girls and music, and the end of this Ummah curses its beginning. When that occurs, anticipate a red wind, collapsing of the earth, and transformation."

References

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fmU9ujkHS4

2) Al-Bidaayah wa’n-Nihaayah (13/219)

3) Sharh Sahih Muslim li’ Nawawi (18/28)

4) Al-Tadhkira (636)

5) Fath Al-Bari Sharh Sahih Al Bukhari under the heading “Kitaab Al Fitan” under the subheading “Baab

Khurooj Al Naar”

6) http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150223-arabia-was-once-a-lush-paradise

7) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26841410

8) As Silsilat Al Saheeha, hadith no. 2683

9) http://fatwa.islamweb.net/fatwa/index.php?page=showfatwa&Option=FatwaId&Id=39171