These sermons are fabricated. Ibn Wa’dan is a liar.

Brother I’m not an expert, but from my understanding, the end of this world doesn’t equal Judgement Day (of which only Allah SWT alone in his infinite wisdom has knowledge of.)

Similarly, the beginning of this world doesn’t equal the beginning of creation [as angels and jinns were created before humans and similarly they have to be destroyed after humans.]

The hadith is referring to the lifespan of the Ummah of the Prophet SAWS.

I don’t understand why the Shaykh on IslamQA equated them and maybe if you are in touch with him you can clarify.

Allah knows best.

The hadith is talking about the ummah ending at that time, not the end of the world. As you may know, Islam will be lifted from the world such that a person would say, “I heard my elders saying ‘Allah, Allah’ but I don’t know what it means.” And that the Hour will be established on the worst of mankind.

Given that an abundance of the signs have come to pass (women dressed but naked, arabs building lofty towers, etc) it is not far fetched that our ummah is very close to the end.

Wa assalam alaikum

Let me ask you. Do you positively believe that the world will end in 70 years since it’s 1430 AH now? If so, then doesn’t it go against Allah’s saying that only He knows when the day of judgment will occur.

Anyhow, your point is absolutely correct that the time is near, wAllahu a’lam.

For the information of the Muslims, it is important to note what ‘weak’ hadith means and that it nonetheless still provides a valuable source of information and the majority of scholars permitted its usage and narrated the weak hadith themselves (as an example of this hadith). Many scholars prefer the usage of weak hadith over qiyas/analogy (Hanafis, Shafi’s, etc.)

Imam Bukhari used many weak narrations in his Adab al-Mufrad as well as Imam Muslim in his collection, as long as the narrator wasn’t accused of lying or forging and they didn’t have to do with Shariah rulings and promoted virtuous deeds.

Imam Nawawi said: It is permissible to act (with caution) on such matters which are borne out of weak (Da’ef) Ahadeeth.

If these hadith were good enough for the hadith masters and scholars of our deen…