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Sahih al-Bukhari 81صحيح البخاري 81
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 ".
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.
Grading
Sahih (authentic by the consensus of hadith scholars)
Chain of narrators
مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل ← يحيى بن سعيد بن فروخ ← شعبة بن الحجاج بن الورد ← قتادة بن دعامة بن قتادة ← أنس بن مالك بن النضر
Musaddad ibn Musarhad ibn Musarbal → Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Farrukh → Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj ibn al-Ward → Qatada ibn Di'ama ibn Qatada → Anas bin Malik