The Overturning of Social and Moral Order
In brief
A cluster of signs describing the overturning of social and moral order: when people invert the rights of parents, friends, leaders and worship, calamities follow.
Ali ibn Abi Talib narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: 'When my Ummah does fifteen things, calamity will befall it' - among them: that a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, is kind to his friend and shuns his father, voices are raised in the mosques, the leader of a people is the basest of them, and a man is honored out of fear of his evil; then let them expect a red wind, sinking of the earth, and disfigurement (Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2210-2211). Both chains are weak (through al-Faraj ibn Fadala), but much of the list is confirmed by sounder narrations.
Gradual moral signs that spread among people; no fixed position in the sequence and no bearing on dating the Hour.
Honor parents above spouse and friend, keep the mosque for remembrance, and give honor to the righteous rather than to those whose harm is feared.
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Where it sits in the sequence
Phase 2 · Signs that spread among people
The narrations do not put these in order, and many of them overlap. Sahih al-Bukhari 7121 lists several together.
What scholars have said
Scholars cite it as having appeared
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Yusuf ibn Abdullah al-Wabil
Gathers the hadith's list - a man obeying his wife and disobeying his mother, drawing near his friend and estranging his father, raised voices in the mosques, the vilest of a people leading them, and the most honored being the one whose evil others fear - as signs of the reversal of values in the latter days, and warns that the narration of Ali is weak, cited only for the broader meaning confirmed by sounder reports.
Ashrat al-Sa'a, the minor signs, on Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2210-2211
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