Jami' at-Tirmidhi

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2250

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا هَنَّادٌ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ "‏ مَا عَلَى الأَرْضِ نَفْسٌ مَنْفُوسَةٌ - يَعْنِي الْيَوْمَ تَأْتِي عَلَيْهَا مِائَةُ سَنَةٍ ‏" ‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ وَأَبِي سَعِيدٍ وَبُرَيْدَةَ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Hannād narrated to us; Abū Mu‘āwiyah narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir, who said that the Messenger of Allah said: “No living soul on earth today will reach one hundred years”—meaning, one hundred years from this day.

Reports on this topic are also related from Ibn ‘Umar, Abū Sa‘īd, and Buraydah. Abū ‘Īsā said: This is a ḥasan hadith.

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • The wording refers to people alive on the day the statement was made, not to all human life ceasing within one hundred years thereafter.