Sayyiduna Abu Musa Ash'ari, may Allah be pleased with him, narrates this statement of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him: "A time will soon come when a man will go around with gold as charity but will not find anyone who will take that gold from him, and a man will see that there are forty women behind him; this will be due to the scarcity of men and the abundance of women."