4334 — We were told by ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muʿādh: we were told by my father: we were told by Muḥammad — meaning Ibn ʿAmr — on the authority of Abū Salamah, on the authority of Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The Hour will not come until thirty impostors and deceivers appear, all of them lying against Allah and against His Messenger."(1)

4335 — We were told by ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Jarrāḥ, on the authority of Jarīr, on the authority of Mughīrah, on the authority of Ibrāhīm, who said: ʿAbīdah al-Salmānī related this report, and he mentioned something similar to it. I said to him: "Do you consider this one to be among them?" — meaning al-Mukhtār. ʿAbīdah said: "Indeed, he is among the heads."(2)

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= It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (7121), and Muslim following hadith (2923), via ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hurmuz al-Aʿraj; and by al-Bukhārī (3609), Muslim following hadith (2923), and al-Tirmidhī (2365), via Hammām ibn Munabbih — both on the authority of Abū Hurayrah.
It is in the *Musnad* of Aḥmad (7228), (8137), and (9897), and in *Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān* (6651). See also what follows it.

(1) A sound hadith, and this chain is good because of Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr — who is Ibn ʿAlqamah — and he is corroborated.
It was also recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah 5/170, Aḥmad (9818), and Abū Yaʿlā (5945) via Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, with the same chain.
See also what precedes it.

(2) Its chain is weak because it is interrupted (mursal). Ibrāhīm: he is Ibn Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī; Mughīrah: he is Ibn Miqsam; Jarīr: he is Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd.
Al-Mukhtār mentioned in the report: he is Ibn Abī ʿUbayd ibn Masʿūd al-Thaqafī. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in *al-Lisān*: "He was a misguided misleader; he claimed that Gabriel, peace be upon him, descended upon him, and he was worse than al-Ḥajjāj or like him." His father, Abū ʿUbayd, was among the best of the Companions; he was martyred on the Day of the Bridge during the caliphate of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, and to him is attributed the place where the Bridge of Abū ʿUbayd is located. Al-Mukhtār was born during the Hijrah, and for this reason Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr mentioned him among the Companions, because he had seen the Prophet, in all likelihood. He was among those who rose up —