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: "And from Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

The Shaykh : The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said: This hadith is the twenty-fifth. And from Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), who 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 it 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: And 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 and blessings be upon him) mentioned here the first part of the verse, so he said: If one of you has... and "they do not increase" means the people who were explicitly mentioned in the context of the hadith, where he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The purpose of the hadith is clear: that although the Hour is near, as our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) informed us in the verse, people are contrary to this warning that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) warned them with when He said: So instead of being concerned about the occurrence of the Hour of Resurrection, and this concern requires preparation for death before it descends, what do people do instead of this preparation? They do not increase in their desire for this world except greed, as if the Hour had moved away from them and not come near to them. Therefore, in the first narration, when he said: meaning in their behavior and their lack of preparation for the Hour of Resurrection, as if the Hour is not increasing in distance from them. Therefore, they are not concerned, but rather they are concerned with the opposite of what this divine warning implies in His saying: regarding preparation for death through righteous deeds. They are contrary to that; they do not increase except in greed for this world, gathering it, and competing for it. And by that, they do not increase in their distance from Allah except distance. 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 by that a warning to the living that the Hour may overtake them before the repentant among them repents, and before the pious one turns back from his evil deed to a righteous deed. So the meaning of the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic): is "prepare for it." The Hour is near, but people, meaning most people, as came in this hadith: This hadith is hasan (good), as we said.