Arabic (Original)
Ḥadīth | Ṭabarānī (الطبراني) tabarani:9496 حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ «إِنَّكُمْ فِي زَمَانٍ قَلِيلٌ خُطَبَاؤُهُ كَثِيرٌ عُلَمَاؤُهُ يُطِيلُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَيَقْصُرُونَ الْخُطْبَةَ وَإِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِي عَلَيْكُمْ زَمَانٌ كَثِيرٌ خُطَبَاؤُهُ قَلِيلٌ عُلَمَاؤُهُ يُطِيلُونَ الْخُطْبَةَ وَيُؤَخِّرُونَ الصَّلَاةَ حَتَّى يُقَالَ هَذَا شَرْقُ الْمَوْتَى» قُلْتُ لَهُ مَا شَرْقُ الْمَوْتَى؟ قَالَ «إِذَا اصْفَرَّتِ الشَّمْسُ جِدًّا فَمَنْ أَدْرَكَ ذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ فَلْيُصَلِّ الصَّلَاةَ لِوَقْتِهَا فَإِنِ احْتَبَسَ فَلْيُصَلِّ مَعَهُمْ وَلْيَجْعَلْ صَلَاتَهُ وَحْدَهُ الْفَرِيضَةَ وَصَلَاتَهُ مَعَهُمْ تَطَوُّعًا»
English Translation
Ibn Mas'ud said: 'You are in a time when its speakers are few and its scholars are many - they lengthen the prayer and shorten the sermon. But a time will come upon you when its speakers are many and its scholars are few - they lengthen the sermon and delay the prayer until the time called "the gleam of the dead."' I asked him: 'What is the gleam of the dead?' He said: 'When the sun turns very yellow. Whoever among you lives to see that, let him pray the prayer at its proper time. If he is delayed, let him pray with them but consider his prayer alone as the obligatory one and his prayer with them as voluntary.'