It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "After sixty years there will come unworthy successors who will neglect the prayer and follow their desires, so they will soon meet destruction (ghayy). Then after sixty years there will be unworthy successors who will recite the Qur'an, but it will not go beyond their throats. And three kinds of people recite the Qur'an: the believer, the hypocrite and the wicked." Bashir says: I asked al-Walid: What is meant by these three? He said: The hypocrite is one who denies it, the wicked is one who earns his living (of this world) through it, and the believer is one who believes in it. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.