Abu Darda’ told how God’s messenger, on an occasion when they
were with him, turned his eyes to the sky and said, "This is a time when
knowledge will be snatched away from men, so that they will be unable
to acquire any.” Tirmidhi transmitted it.
Abu Huraira reported God’s messenger as saying, "Learn the
things which are made obligatory and the Qur’an, and teach them to
people, for I shall die.” Tirmidhi transmitted it.
Abu Huraira transmitted , "The time is approaching when men will urge on their camels in search of knowledge, but
will find no one more learned than the learned man of Medina.” Tirmidhi transmitted it. and in his Jami' he quotes Ibn ‘Uyaina as saying
that Malik b. Anas was meant, and the same view is expressed by ‘Abd
ar-Razzaq. Ishab b. Musa said he heard Ibn ‘Uyaina say that he
was al-‘Umari the ascetic, whose name was ‘Abd al-‘Aziz b. ‘Abdallah.
