We were sitting with Abdullah when his doorkeeper came and announced, "The prayer has begun." He stood and we stood with him, then we entered the mosque. He saw the people already bowing in the front of the mosque, so he said the takbir and bowed, and we walked forward doing the same as he did.A man passed by hurrying and said, "Peace be upon you, Abu Abd al-Rahman."Abdullah replied, "Allah has spoken truly, and His Messenger has delivered the message."When we had finished praying, he went back and entered his home, while we sat in our place waiting for him to come out. We said to one another, "Which of you will ask him?"Tariq said, "I will ask him." So he asked him.Abdullah said, reporting from the Prophet ﷺ, "Among the signs before the Hour are greetings exchanged only with select acquaintances, the spread of trade until a woman assists her husband in business, the severing of family ties, the spread of writing, the appearance of false testimony, and the concealment of truthful testimony."
كنا عند عبد الله جلوسا، فجاء آذنه، فقال: قد قامت الصلاة، فقام وقمنا معه، فدخلنا المسجد، فرأى الناس ركوعا في مقدم المسجد، فكبر وركع، ومشينا وفعلنا مثل ما فعل، فمر رجل يسرع، فقال عليكم السلام يا أبا عبد الرحمن، فقال: صدق الله، وبلغ رسوله، فلما صلينا رجع فولج على أهله، وجلسنا في مكاننا ننتظره حتى يخرج، فقال بعضنا البعض: أيكم يسأله؟ قال طارق: أنا، أسأله، فسأله، فقال: عن النبي ﷺ قال: بين يدي الساعة تسليم الخاصة، وفشو التجارة حتى تعين المرأة زوجها على التجارة، وقطع الأرحام، وفشو القلم، وظهور الشهادة بالزور، وكتمان شهادة الحق.
Bukhari narrated it in Adab al-Mufrad (1049), Ahmad (3982), Tahawi in Sharh Mushkil (1590), and Hakim (4/445), all of them through the route of Bashir bin Salman, from Sayyar, from Tariq bin Shihab, who mentioned it.The discussion of this is set out in detail in the book on transactions. All these matters have indeed come to pass in our own time, just as the Prophet ﷺ foretold.