Hadith 8459

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Abdullahibn Masud said to a certain man, "You are in a time when men ofunderstanding (fuqaha) are many and Qur'an reciters are few, when thelimits of behaviour defined in the Qur'an are guarded and its lettersare lost, when few people ask and many give, when they make the prayerlong and the khutba short, and put their actions before their desires.A time will come upon men when their fuqaha are few but their Qur'anreciters are many, when the letters of the Qur'an are guardedcarefully but its limits are lost, when many ask but few give, whenthey make the khutba long but the prayer short, and put their desiresbefore their actions."