DESCRIPTION OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE ALIVE AT THE END OF TIME

It was reported from ‘Abdullâh ibn ‘Amr that the Prophet – sallallâhu ’alayhi wa sallam – said, “The Hour will not come until Allâh takes away the best people on earth; only the worst people will be left; they will not know any good or forbid any evil.” (Ahmad)
‘Abdullâh ibn Mas’ud said, “I heard the Prophet – sallallâhu ’alayhi wa sallam – say: Eloquence can be bewitching; the worst of the people are those upon whom the Hour will come while they are still alive, and those who turn graves into mosques’.” (Ahmad)
It was reported from Anas that the Prophet – sallallâhu ’alayhi wa sallam – said, “The Hour will not come until no-one on earth says ‘La ilaha illa Allâh’.” (Ahmad) It was also reported from Anas that the Prophet – sallallâhu ’alayhi wa sallam – said: “The Hour will not come until no-one on earth says, ‘Allâh, Allâh’.” (Ahmad) There are two suggestions as to the meaning of the phrase, “until no-one on earth says ‘Allâh, Allâh’”:
1. It could mean that no-one will forbid evil, or try to correct another if he sees him doing something wrong. We have already come across this in the Hadîth of ‘Abdullâh ibn ‘Amr: “Only the worst people will be left; they will not know any good or forbid any evil.”
2. It could mean that Allâh will no longer be mentioned, and His Name will not be known; this will be part of the prevalent corruption and Kufr, as in the previous Hadîth, “Until no-one on earth says ‘La ilaha illa Allâh’.” ‘A’ishah said. “The Prophet – sallallâhu ’alayhi wa sallam – came in, saying ‘O ‘A’ishah, your people will be the first of my Ummah to join me. When he sat down, I said, ‘O Messenger of Allâh, may I be sacrificed for you! When you came in, you were saying something which scared me. He asked, ‘What was that?’ I said, ‘You said that my people would be the first of your Ummah to join you.’ He said, ‘Yes’ I asked, ‘Why is that? He said, ‘Death will be widespread among them, and their relatives will be jealous of them.’ I said, ‘How will people be after that?’ He said, ‘Like locusts: the strong will devour the weak, until the Hour comes.’ ” (Ahmad)
‘Alba’al-Salami said, “I heard the Prophet – sallallâhu ’alayhi wa sallam – say: ‘The Hour will only come upon the worst of the people’.” (Ahmad)