We were sitting with Abdullah when his caller came and announced, "The prayer has begun." So he stood up and we stood with him, and 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 and did as he did. A man passed by hurrying and said, "Peace be upon you, Abu Abd al-Rahman."Abdullah replied, "Allah has spoken the truth, and His Messenger has conveyed it."When we had finished the prayer, he returned home and went in to his family, while we sat where we were 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, and Abdullah reported from the Prophet ﷺ that he said, "Among the signs before the Hour are greetings given only to those one knows, 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 true 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 reported it in Adab al-Mufrad (1049), Ahmad (3982), Tahawi in his Mushkil (1590), and Hakim (4/445), all of them through the route of Bashir bin Salman, from Sayyar Abu Hakam, from Tariq bin Shihab, and so he related it. Sayyar Abu Hakam is Anazi, one of the men of the Sahih, trustworthy, but the correct view is that he is Sayyar Abu Hamza, as Imam Ahmad said in another hadith he reported through this same route (4219), then he reported it from Abdul-Razzaq, who said, Sufyan informed us, from Bashir Abu Ismail, from Sayyar Abu Hamza, and so he related it. Abdullah said, "My father said, the correct one is Sayyar Abu Hamza. And he said, Sayyar Abu Hakam did not narrate anything from Tariq bin Shihab."Likewise Abu Dawud said, "He is Sayyar Abu Hamza, but Bashir used to say, Sayyar Abu Hakam, and that is a mistake." This is also the view of Yahya bin Main.However, Bukhari held that he is Sayyar Abu Hakam, and gave him an entry in Tarikh al-Kabir (4/161), saying, "Sayyar bin Abu Sayyar, that is, Sayyar bin Wardan Wasiti, from Tariq bin Shihab. Ubaydullah bin Umar, Bashir bin Salman, and Hushaym reported from him. His kunya is Abu Hakam." Ibn Abu Hatim said likewise in Jarh wa Tadil (4/254–255).Daraqutni judged them mistaken, saying in his Ilal (5/116), Their statement, "Sayyar Abu Hakam," is an error. Rather, he is Sayyar Abu Hamza Kufi. Abdul-Razzaq reported it likewise, from Thawri, from Bashir, from Sayyar Abu Hamza, and that is correct. Sayyar Abu Hakam did not hear anything from Tariq bin Shihab, and did not report from him. End of quote.Ibn Hajar endorsed this in his Tahdhib (5/292). A number of narrators reported from Sayyar Abu Hamza, and Ibn Hibban rated him trustworthy. It appears he was well known among the imams of hadith, so he is not below the rank of hasan al-hadith. Ibn Hajar graded his hadith hasan in several places in his Fath.