Fitan of the End Times
Imām Abdullāh ad-Dārimī (d. 255 هـ) reported that the rule of the misguiding rulers destroys Islām:
٢٢٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، أَنبَأَنَا عَلِيٌّ هُوَ ابْنُ مُسْهِرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ حُدَيْرٍ، قَالَ
Muḥammad bin ‘Uyayna reported to us: ‘Alī, he is Ibn Mushir, informed us from Abī Isḥāq from ash-Sha’bī from Ziyād bin Ḥudayr, he said:
قَالَ لِي عُمَرُ: هَلْ تَعْرِفُ مَا يَهْدِمُ الْإِسْلَامَ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لَا
‘Umar (bin al-Khaṭṭāb) said to me: “Do you know what destroys Islām?” He said: “I said: No”
قَالَ: يَهْدِمُهُ زَلَّةُ الْعَالِمِ، وَجِدَالُ الْمُنَافِقِ بِالْكِتَابِ وَحُكْمُ الْأَئِمَّةِ الْمُضِلِّينَ
He (‘Umar) said: “It (Islām) is destroyed by the slip of the scholar, the dispute of the Munāfiq with the book (the Qur’ān) and the rule of the misleading leaders”
Imām Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal (d. 241 هـ) narrated that the bonds of Islām will be broken, the first being the law of Sharī’a:
٢٢١٦٠ – حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ، أَنَّ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ حَبِيبٍ حَدَّثَهُمْ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيِّ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ
Al-Walīd bin Muslim narrated to us: ‘Abdulazīz bin Ismā’īl bin ‘Ubaydullāh narrated to me that Sulaymān bin Ḥabīb narrated to them from Abī Umāma al-Bāhilī from the messenger of Allāh, may Allāh’s peace and blessings be upon him, he said:
لَتُنْقَضَنَّ عُرَى الْإِسْلَامِ عُرْوَةً عُرْوَةً، فَكُلَّمَا انْتَقَضَتْ عُرْوَةٌ تَشَبَّثَ النَّاسُ بِالَّتِي تَلِيهَا، وَأَوَّلُهُنَّ نَقْضًا الْحُكْمُ وَآخِرُهُنَّ الصَّلَاةُ
“The bonds of Islām will be broken, bond by bond. So whenever a bond is broken, the people cling to that which follows it. And the first of them to be broken is the law (Sharī’a) and the last of them is the prayer”
