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What is the authenticity of the Hadith: "A time will come upon my Ummah when nothing will remain of Islam but its name, of the religion but its trace, and of the Qur'an but its letters"?

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The hadith reported by Al-Bayhaqi and Ibn Adiyy from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "A time is soon to come upon the people when nothing will remain of Islam but its name, and nothing will remain of the Qur'an but its script. Their mosques will be full, but they will be desolate of guidance. Their scholars will be the most evil people under the canopy of the sky; from them will emerge tribulations, and to them they will return." Sheikh Al-Albani graded this hadith as weak in "Al-Silsilah Al-Da'ifah" and said about it: "Very weak."

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