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Hadith text: By Him in Whose hand is my soul, a time would come upon…

عن أبي هريرة، قال: قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم : «والذي نفسي بيده ليأتينَّ على الناس زمانٌ لا يدري القاتلُ في أيِّ شيء قَتَل، ولا يدري المقتولُ على أيِّ شيء قُتِل».

Explanation of the hadith: By Him in Whose hand is my soul, a time would come upon…

The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) swears by Allah that there will come a time when murder would be so widespread that the killer would not know the reason he killed and the killed would not know the reason he was killed for.

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