حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ ، حَدَّثَنَا هِلَالٌ هُوَ ابْنُ خَبَّابٍ ، قَالَ : سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ ، قُلْتُ : يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، مَا عَلَامَةُ هَلَاكِ النَّاسِ؟، قَالَ :" إِذَا هَلَكَ عُلَمَاؤُهُمْ "

Abu Al-Numan narrated to us, Thabit bin Yazid narrated to us, Hilal Ibn Khabbab narrated to us, he said: I asked Saeed bin Jubayr, I said: O Abu Abdullah, what is the sign of people’s destruction? He said: “When their scholars perish.”