We used to say that the Hour will not come until the sky no longer rains and the earth no longer grows anything, and until fifty women have a single man to look after them, and until a woman walks past a man and he looks at her and says, "This one once had a husband."
كنا نتحدث أنه لا تقوم الساعة حتى لا تمطر السماء، ولا تنبت الأرض، وحتى يكون لخمسين امرأة القيم الواحد، وحتى أن المرأة لتمر بالبعل فينظر إليها فيقول: لقد كان لهذه مرة رجل.
Ahmad (14047) and Abu Yaala (3527) both narrated it through the hadith of Affan, who said, Hammad (that is, Ibn Salama) narrated to us, from Thabit, from Anas, and he mentioned it. Then he said, Hammad mentioned it once in this manner, having reported it from Thabit, from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ, without any doubt about it, but he also said, "from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ," as he supposed.Hakim (4/495) narrated it through two other routes from Hammad bin Salama, with the same wording, raised to the Prophet without doubt, and said, "Sahih according to the criterion of Muslim."I say, its chain is sahih, and the doubt about whether it is raised to the Prophet does not weaken it, because the default in such cases is that it is indeed raised to the Prophet, since matters of the future are not spoken of by mere personal opinion.