صحيح مسلم 367

Hudhaifa reported:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) narrated to us two ahadith. I have seen one (crystallized into reality), and I am waiting for the other. He told us: Trustworthiness descended in the innermost (root) of the hearts of people. Then the Qur'an was revealed and they learnt from the Qur'an and they learnt from the Sunnah. Then he (the Holy Prophet) told us about the removal of trustworthiness. He said: The man would have a wink of sleep and trustworthiness would be taken away from his heart leaving the impression of a faint mark. He would again sleep and trustworthiness would be taken away from his heart leaving an impression of a blister, as if you rolled down an ember on your foot and it was vesicled. He would see a swelling having nothing in it. He (the Holy Prophet) then took up a pebble and rolled it down over his foot and (said): The people would enter into transactions amongst one another and hardly a person would be left who would return (things) entrusted to him. (And there would be so much paucity of honest persons) till it would be said: There in such a such tribe is a trustworthy man. And they would also say about a person: How prudent he is, how broad-minded he is and how intelligent he is, whereas in his heart there would not be faith even to the weight of a mustard seed. I have passed through a time in which I did not care with whom amongst you I entered into a transaction, for if he were a Muslim his faith would compel him to discharge his obligations to me and it he were a Christian or a Jew, the ruler would compel him to discharge his obligations to me. But today I would not enter into a transaction with you except so and so

Rapporté par Hudhayfa رضي الله عنه : Le Messager d’Allah ﷺ nous a raconté deux hadiths. J’en ai vu un se réaliser, et j’attends le second. Il nous a dit : « La confiance a été placée au plus profond du cœur des gens. Puis le Coran a été révélé : ils ont appris du Coran et de la Sunna. » Ensuite, il nous a parlé de la disparition de la confiance : « L’homme fera un petit somme et la confiance sera retirée de son cœur, ne laissant qu’une trace légère. Il dormira encore et la confiance disparaîtra, laissant une marque comme une cloque, comme si on avait roulé une braise sur son pied. Il verra un gonflement sans rien dedans. » (Le Prophète ﷺ a alors pris un caillou et l’a fait rouler sur son pied.) « Les gens feront des transactions entre eux et il ne restera presque plus personne qui rendra ce qui lui a été confié. (Il y aura si peu de gens honnêtes) qu’on dira : “Dans telle tribu, il y a un homme digne de confiance.” On dira aussi d’une personne : “Comme il est intelligent, réfléchi et avisé !”, alors qu’il n’aura pas de foi dans son cœur, même pas du poids d’une graine de moutarde. J’ai connu une époque où je n’avais aucune crainte de faire affaire avec l’un d’entre vous : s’il était musulman, sa foi l’obligeait à remplir ses engagements, et s’il était chrétien ou juif, le gouverneur l’y contraignait. Mais aujourd’hui, je ne traiterais qu’avec un tel ou un tel. »