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Is salaam said to those you only know a sign of the day of judgement?

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Question

I read somewhere that one of the signs of they day of judgementis that salaam will be said to those you know only.I read that it was a Ahmad hadith, and I never heard of it before so I wanted to make sure.

Answer

The Hadith is narrated by Haakim in Mustadrak (vol.4 pg.524), ibn Khuzaymah (Hadith1326) and Bayhaqi (Hadith3146) and has been classified as authentic by Hafiz al-Dhahabi [ra].

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Mufti Ebrahim Desai

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