8/6/2019 In the last part of my Ummah

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Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet said: In the last part of my Ummah,

there will come a people who will tell of you things that neither you, nor your fathers heard of. So

beware of them.

[Reported by Imam Muslim in the introduction to his Saheeh; Imam Ahmad in his Musnad;

Al-Hakim in his Mustadrak; and Imam Bukhari recorded it in his Tareekh]

This hadeeth is indeed profound and vast in meaning. It provides a general guideline by which correctness isdistinguished from falsehood and acceptable speech from wretched speech.

1. Al Manawi commented on this hadeeth in his Fayd al-Qadeer thus:

In the last part of my Ummah, there will come a people They (will) claim they are scientists

who will tell of you things that neither you, nor your fathers heard of (From) lying speech and innovated

rulings and (leading to) false beliefs.

So beware of them Distance yourselves from them (and further them from you).

2. In the centuries following the period of earliest Muslims came various beliefs and systems and ideas, both within

Muslim realms and outside of them. Theological rhetoric established its own poison, creating intellectual discord and

initiating deviant trends. From the scientific sphere came theories based on scientific method or methodology of

scientific inquiry. From amongst the many prominent scientific inquiries of the past centuries include: Theory of

Human Evolution; Theory of Special Relativity; Quantum Theory, Modern Atomic Theory, etc.

3. From amongst these 'people' who will come in the last part of the Ummah will be scientists, philosophers and

theologians promoting variant agendas and propagating false speech - created for the establishment of new and

corrupted beliefs (e.g. Darwinism). We are warned to distance ourselves from them and their wicked speech. At-

Teebi stated that these people would be renowned in their field of studies and this would induce Muslims to listen tothem...

4. At-Teebi said in explanation of the above hadeeth [as found in Fayd al-Qadeer, 4780]:

May Allah provide us the insight to the words of our Prophet and enable us to put them into practise; and may He safeguard us from all man-made fitan.