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darimi:194Ṣāliḥ b. Suhayl a freed slave of Yaḥyá b. Abū Zāʾidah > Yaḥyá > Mujālid > al-Shaʿbī > Masrūq > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "Every year that comes to you is worse than the year before it. I do not mean by this that it brings more crops or a better leader, but your scholars, elites, and jurists will die, and you will not find their successors. Then a people will come who will judge matters according to their own opinions."  

الدارمي:١٩٤حَدَّثَنَا صَالِحُ بْنُ سُهَيْلٍ مَوْلَى يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ ثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ مُجَالِدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

«لَا يَأْتِي عَلَيْكُمْ عَامٌ إِلَّا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ مِنَ الَّذِي كَانَ قَبْلَهُ أَمَا إِنِّي لَسْتُ أَعْنِي عَامًا أَخْصَبَ مِنْ عَامٍ وَلَا أَمِيرًا خَيْرًا مِنْ أَمِيرٍ وَلَكِنْ عُلَمَاؤُكُمْ وَخِيَارُكُمْ وَفُقَهَاؤُكُمْ يَذْهَبُونَ ثُمَّ لَا تَجِدُونَ مِنْهُمْ خَلَفًا وَيَجِيءُ قَوْمٌ يَقِيسُونَ الْأُمُورَ بِرَأْيِهِمْ»