Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Abdullah
ibn Masud said to a certain man, "You are in a time when men of
understanding (fuqaha) are many and Qur'an reciters are few, when the
limits of behaviour defined in the Qur'an are guarded and its letters
are lost, when few people ask and many give, when they make the prayer
long and the khutba short, and put their actions before their desires.
A time will come upon men when their fuqaha are few but their Qur'an
reciters are many, when the letters of the Qur'an are guarded
carefully but its limits are lost, when many ask but few give, when
they make the khutba long but the prayer short, and put their desires
before their actions."
Muwatta Malik Book 9, Hadith 97