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Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya Ibn Said that Abdullah Ibn Masud said to a certain man; You are in a time when men of understanding fuqaha are many and Quran reciters are few; when the limits of behaviour defined in the Quran are guarded and its letters are lost; when few people ask and many give; when they make the prayer long and the khutba short; and put their actions before their desires. A time will come upon men when their fuqaha are few but their Quran reciters are many; when the letters of the Quran are guarded carefully but its limits are lost; when many ask but few give; when they make the khutba long but the prayer short; and put their desires before their actions.