The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The Hour will not come until Allah takes away His chosen ones from the people of the earth, leaving behind only the dregs who recognize no good and reject no evil."
حدثنا عبد الصمد حدثنا همام حدثنا قتادة عن الحسن
قال رسول الله ﷺ لا تقوم الساعة حتى يأخذ الله شريطته من أهل الأرض فيبقى فيها عجاجة لا يعرفون معروفا ولا ينكرون منكرا
Its chain of transmission is sahih. Hakim also related it in Al-Mustadrak 4:435, through Abu Qilaba Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad Raqashi, from Abdullah bin Abdul-Warith, with this same chain, and he said, This is a sahih hadith meeting the standard of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), provided Hasan heard it from Abdullah bin Amr. Dhahabi agreed with him. We have already established, in the commentary on 6508, the continuity of Hasan Basri's narration from Abdullah bin Amr, since sufficient contemporaneity between them has been established for such a ruling to apply, so long as the absence of direct hearing has not been established for a specific hadith. Haythami mentioned it in Majma al-Zawaid 13:8, and said, Ahmad related it both as a raised report and as a stopped report, and its narrators are the narrators of the sahih collections. By "stopped," he is referring to the hadith that follows this one. The raising of the report to the Prophet is an addition from a trustworthy narrator, and so it is acceptable and sahih. See also 6508, 6952, and 7063.The word "shareetah," with a fatha on the shin and a kasra on the ra, Ibn Athir said, means the people of goodness and religion. The word "ashrat" is one of those words that carries opposite meanings, applying both to the noble and to the base.As for the word "ajjajah," with a fatha on the ayn, an unstressed jeem, then an alif, then another jeem also with a fatha, Ibn Athir said, "Al-ajjaj" means the rabble, the base people, those in whom there is no good, and the singular is "ajjajah." What is established here in the three original manuscripts is "ajjajah" with the ha at the end. Following the printer of Majma al-Zawaid, based on a copy that is neither known nor verified, we changed it in print to "ajjaj" without the ha, not content with relying on the handwritten original of Majma al-Zawaid that was before us, which is a sound and reliable original that we know is kept at the Egyptian National Library (Dar al-Kutub), though he did note in the margin of the printed edition that in his original it was "ajjajah." Hakim's narration in Al-Mustadrak has "ajjaj" without the ha.