Explanation of Hadiths from al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib by al-Mundhiri, from the Book of Repentance and Asceticism: The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said

The Shaykh : The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said: This is the twenty-fifth hadith. It was narrated from Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Al-Tabarani narrated it, and its narrators are relied upon in Sahih al-Bukhari, and al-Hakim said it has a sound chain. Its wording is: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .
This hadith is hasan (good) and has two wordings, as you have seen. The second wording is more complete than the first in both wording and meaning. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This phrase, as you all know, is taken from the text of the Noble Qur'an: And this verse will come in full in a later hadith, if Allah wills: But the Messenger (peace be upon him) mentioned here the first part of the verse, saying: .
If one of you has a copy of *al-Targhib*, it may be like my copy here: This is a mistake, and the correct reading, as indicated by the context and by referring to the sources, is that is, the people who are explicitly mentioned in the preceding part of the hadith, where he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The purpose of the hadith is clear: even though the Hour is approaching, as our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) informed us in the verse, the people are contrary to this warning with which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) warned them when He said: So, instead of being concerned about the occurrence and establishment of the Hour—and this concern necessitates preparing for death before it descends—what do people do instead of this preparation? It is as if the Hour has moved away from them and not drawn near to them. Therefore, in the first narration, when it said: meaning, in their conduct and their lack of preparation for the establishment of the Hour, it is as if the Hour is only increasing in distance from them. For that reason, they are not concerned; rather, they are concerned with the opposite of what this divine warning necessitates from them, namely, from His saying: preparing for death through righteous deeds. They are contrary to that; they only increase in eagerness for this world, in gathering it, and in competing for it. And by doing so, they only increase in distance from Allah.
It must be known by every Muslim that when Allah (Mighty and Majestic) informs us of the nearness of the Hour and the approach of its minor signs, let alone the major ones, He means thereby to warn the living that the Hour may overtake them before the repentant among them repents, and before the wretched one turns from his evil deeds to righteous deeds. So His saying (Mighty and Majestic): means "prepare for it." The Hour is near, but people—meaning most people, as came in this hadith: This is a hasan (good) hadith, as we said.