MINOR SIGN OF THE LAST HOUR
1. Time will pass rapidly. [Bukhari, Muslim, &Ahmad]
2. Good deeds will decrease. [Bukhari]
3. People will become miserly. [Bukhari]
4. There will be much killing and murder.[Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad]
5. Power and authority will be given towrong people. [Bukhari]
6. Honesty will be lost. [Bukhari]
7. The disappearance of knowledge and theappearance of ignorance [Bukhari,Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad]
8. A mountain of gold will be disclosed frombeneath the River Euphrates, but we arenot to take anything from it.
9. The appearance of 30 false messengers.[Bukhari]
10. Two large groups, entering the samereligious teaching, will fight each otherwith large numbers of casualties. [Bukhari& Muslim]
11. Earthquakes will increase [Bukhari & Muslim]
12. Wealth will be in abundance, to the extentthat it will be difficult to find someone inneed of Zakat. [Bukhari]
13. When people begin to compete withothers in the construction of tallerbuildings. [Bukhari]
14. A man will pass by a grave and wish thathe was in their place. [Bukhari]
15. The conquest of Constantinople by theMuslims. [Ahmad, Muslim]
16. Stones and trees will help the Muslimsfight against the Jews.
17. The consumption of intoxicants will bewidespread. [Bukhari & Muslim]
18. Adultery and fornication will be prevalent.[Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah]
19. Women will outnumber men, eventuallythe ratio will be 50 women to 1 man.[Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad]
20. People will strive for power aboutmosques.
21. Adultery and fornication will be prevalent.[Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah]
22. People will cheat with goods. [Ibn Majah]
23. Paying Zakat becomes a burden andmiserliness becomes widespread; charityis given reluctantly. [Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah]
24. Leaders will not rule according to theCommands of Allah.
25. Only the rich receive a share of anygains, and the poor do not. [Tirmidhi]
26. The leader of a people will be the worstof them. [Tirmidhi]
27. A trust is used to make a profit. [Tirmidhi]
28. When a man obeys his wife and disobeyshis mother; and treats his friend kindlywhile shunning his father. [Tirmidhi]
29. When voices are raised in the mosques.[Tirmidhi]30. People will treat a man with respect outof fear for some evil he might do.[Tirmidhi]
31. Men will begin to wear silk. [Tirmidhi]
32. Female singers and musical instrumentswill become popular. [Tirmidhi]
33. When the last ones of the Ummah beginto curse the first ones. [Tirmidhi]
34. The nations of the Earth will gatheragainst the Muslims like hungry peoplegoing to sit at a table full of food. Thiswill occur when the Muslims are large innumber, but “like the foam of the sea”.
35. The Muslim conquest of Jerusalem.[Bukhari]
36. A great plague will spread over the land -may be in reference to the plague ofAmwas during the Caliphate of Hazrat Umar ibn al-Khattab. [Bukhari]
37. Wealth will increase so much so that if aman were given 10,000, he would not becontent with it. [Ahmad & Bukhari]
38. A trial will arise in Arabia which will notspare a single household. [Ahmad &Bukhari]
39. A treaty will be made between theMuslims and the Westerners – which theywill breach with an army of 12,000soldiers under 80 banners. [Bukhari]
40. Books/writing will be widespread and(religious) knowledge will be low. [Ahmad]
41. People will beat others with whips like thetails of oxen – this may be in reference tothe slave trade. [Muslim]
42. Children will be filled with rage. [at-Tabarani, al-Hakim]
43. Children will be foul. [at-Tabarani, al-Hakim]
44. Women will conspire. [at-Tabarani, al-Hakim[
45. Rain will be acidic or burning – referenceto acid rain. [at-Tabarani, al-Hakim]
46. Children of fornication will becomewidespread or prevalent. [at-Tabarani, al-Hakim]
47. When a trust becomes a means ofmaking a profit. [Tirmidhi, Al-Haythami]
48. Episodes of sudden death will becomewidespread. [Ahmad]
49. There will be people who will be brethrenin public, but enemies in secret. (Whenasked how that would come about, hereplied, “Because they will have ulteriormotives in their mutual dealings, and atthe same time they will fear oneanother.”) [Tirmidhi]
50. People will walk in the marketplace their thighs exposed.
51. Great distances will be traversed in shortspans of time – reference to vehicles,aeroplanes.
52. The people of Iraq will recieve no foodand no money due to oppression by theRomans (Europeans). [Muslim]
53. People will hop between the clouds andthe earth.
54. When singers become common. [Al-Haythami]
55. People will dance late into the night.
56. People will claim to follow the Qur’an butwill reject Hadith & Sunnah. [Abu Dawood]
57. People will believe in the stars. [Al-Haythami]
58. People will reject al-Qadr (the DivineDecree of Destiny). [Al-Haythami]
59. Smog will appear over cities because ofthe evil that they are doing.
60. People will be carrying on with their trade,but there will only be a few trustworthypersons.
61. There will be attempts to make thedeserts green.
62. Women will be naked in spite of beingdressed, these women will be led astray &will lead others astray. [Muslim]
63. The conquest of India by the Muslims,just prior to the return of Prophet Jesus,son of Mary. [Ahmad, an-Nisa’i, Tabarani,al-Hakim]
64. There will be a special greeting for thepeople of distinction. [Ahmad]
65. Wild animals will be able to talk tohumans. [Ahmad]
66. A man will leave his home and his thighor hip will tell him what is happening backat his home. [Ahmad]
67. Years of deceit in which the truthfulperson will not be believed and the liarwill be believed. [Ahmad]
68. Bearing false witness will becomewidespread. [Al-Haythami & Ahmad] 69. When men lie with men, and women liewith women. [Al-Haythami]
70. Trade will become so widespread that awoman will be forced to help her husbandin business. [Ahmad]
71. A woman will enter the workforce out oflove for this world. [Ahmad]
72. Arrogance will increase in the earth.[Tabarani, al-Hakim]
73. Family ties will be cut. [Ahmad]
74. There will be many women of child-bearing age who will no longer give birth.
75. There will be an abundance of food, muchof which has no blessing in it.
76. People will refuse when offered food.
77. Men will begin to look like women andwomen will begin to look like men.
