Sayyidina Abu Darda (RA) narrated: We were with the Prophet (SAW) when he turned his sight towards the heaven and said, This is the time when knowledge is being withdrawn from the people till they will have no control over anything of it.” So, Ziyad ibn Labit Ansari (RA) said, ‘How will it be withdrawn from us while we have read the Qur’an and, by Allah, we do read it, as our women do read it, as also our children?’ He said, “O Ziyad! May your mother weep over you! I took you for a learned man of Madinah! There is the Torah and the Injil with the Jews and the Christians, but how do they benefit from it?” Jubayr reported that he then met Ubadah ibn Samit and said to him, “Did you hear what your brother Abu Darda said?’ And he informed him of what Abu Darda (RA) had said. He said, “Abu Darda has spoken the truth. If you like, I will tell you of the first (kind of) knowledge that will be taken away from the people humbleness! Soon, you will enter a Jami Masjid and not find even one man observing humbleness.”
[Ahmed 24045]