Awf bin Malik said, "Plague, take me to you."They said to him, "Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say that the longer a Muslim lives, the better it is for him?"He replied, "Yes, but I fear six things. The rule of fools, the selling of judicial verdicts, an abundance of police, the severing of family ties, a generation that will arise treating the Quran as mere musical instruments, and the shedding of blood."
حدثنا وكيع قال حدثنا النهاس بن قهم أبو الخطاب
قال عوف بن مالك يا طاعون خذني إليك قال فقالوا أليس قد سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول ما عمر المسلم كان خيرا له قال بلى ولكني أخاف ستا إمارة السفهاء وبيع الحكم وكثرة الشرط وقطيعة الرحم ونشئا ينشئون يتخذون القرآن مزامير وسفك الدم
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Its chain of transmission is daif because of Nahhas bin Qahm, whom they graded as daif. However, the hadith itself is sahih, and it was mentioned earlier with the wording, "Hasten to do six things before death," in 10985.