It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recite this verse: "Then there succeeded them a (bad) generation" [Surah Maryam: 59] , and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "After sixty years there will come an unworthy generation who will neglect the prayers and follow their desires, so they will soon meet 'Ghayy' (a valley in Hell). Then there will be people who recite the Qur'an, but it will not go beyond their throats. And three kinds of people will recite the Qur'an: the believer, the hypocrite and the wicked." The narrator Bashir said: I asked al-Walid: What is meant by these three? He said: The hypocrite is one who rejects it (a disbeliever), the wicked one fills his stomach (earns his living) by means of it, and the believer truly believes in it. This hadith is sahih (authentic), and all its narrators are reliable, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.