How authentic is the Hadith: "A time will come upon people when no one will be able to preserve his religion except one who flees with it from village to village..."?
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The is reported with very weak chains of narration that do not strengthen each other, and it calls for monasticism and abstaining from marriage, which is a reprehensible meaning in Islamic Law. Al-Dhahabi judged the report as fabricated (), and it was weakened by al-'Iraqi, al-Sakhawi, and al-Albani. Ibn al-Jawzi included it in "al-Mawdu'at" (Fabricated Hadiths), indicating its repulsiveness. It has no corroborating evidence in the authentic ; rather, the numerous pieces of evidence are to the contrary.
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Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
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