حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، حَدَّثَنَا هِلَالٌ هُوَ: ابْنُ خَبَّابٍ، قَالَ : سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ قُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، مَا عَلَامَةُ هَلَاكِ النَّاسِ؟ قَالَ: إِذَا هَلَكَ عُلَمَاؤُهُمْ

Book: The Introduction
Chapter [26]: The departure of knowledge

Ḥadīth [241]: Hilāl bin Khabbāb says: I asked Sa’īd bin Jubayr, “O ‘Abu ‘Abdullāh, what is a sign of the destruction of people?” He replied: “When their ‘ulamā [learned ones] pass away.”

Reference: Sunan ad-Dārimī (241 (1/55))

• Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah (39989 (21/226))
• Shu’ab al-Īmān (1542 (3/193))
• Ḥilyatul Awliyā’ (4/276)

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• Trustworthy narrators except al-Faḍl bin Muḥammad by Mukhtār Aḥmad an-Nadwī (Shu’ab al-Īmān)