We were sitting with Abdullah, when a man came and said:
The prayer had been performed, so he stood up and we stood with him. When we entered the mosque, we saw people kneeling at the front of the mosque, so he said “Allahu Akbar” and bowed, and we bowed, then we walked and did the same as he had done, then a man passed by quickly, He said: Peace be upon you, Abu Abd al-Rahman. He said: God and His Messenger have spoken the truth. When we prayed and returned, he entered and sat with his family, We said to each other: Did you not hear his response to the man: God has spoken the truth and His messengers have conveyed it. Which of you should he ask him? Tariq said: I am asking him. He asked him when he left, and he mentioned on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace: “Indeed, before the Hour is the greeting of the special, and the spread of the trade, cutting ties of kinship, false testimony, concealing the testimony of the truth, and the appearance of the pen.”
Abdullah met a man and said: Peace be upon you, Bin Masoud. Abdullah said: God and His Messenger have spoken the truth.
I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saying: “One of the signs of the Hour is that a man will pass through a mosque without praying two rak’ahs in it, and that a man will not greet anyone except to whom he knows” (Al-Silsilah Al-Sahihah: 648).
In a narration by Ahmad on the authority of Ibn Masoud, may God be pleased with him, he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
“One of the signs of the Hour is that a man will greet another man, but he will not greet him except for the sake of knowledge.”
And in the sunnah is
“A man asked the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, ‘Which Islam is best?’ He said, ‘Give food, and you send greetings to those you know and those you do not know.”
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