Hadith 71

And from him, from Isa Bin Abu Hamza who said, ‘A man said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! The people are claiming that the world, its age is seven thousand years’. He-asws said: ‘It isn’t like what they are saying. Allah-azwj Created fifty thousand years for it. He-azwj Left it as a barren wasteland, empty for ten thousand years. Then there was a Change if Decision for Allah-azwj, so He-azwj Created creatures in it, creatures who were neither from the Jinn, nor from the Angels, nor from the humans, and He-azwj Determined ten thousand years for them. When their terms drew near, they were corrupt in it, so Allah-azwj Pounded upon them with a pounding. Then He-azwj left it as a barren wasteland, empty for ten thousand years. Then He‑azwj Created the Jinn in it and Determined for them ten thousand years in it. When their terms drew near, they corrupted in it and shed the blood, and it is the Word of the Angels: Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood, [2: 30], just as the clan of Jaan had shed, so Allah-azwj Destroyed them. Then there was a Change of Decision for Allah-azwj, so He Created Adam-as and Determined ten thousand years for him-as, and seven thousand and two hundred years have already passed from that, and you are at the end of the times’’. [77]