The days of patience, and one who holds fast to his religion during trials

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Banu Hashim! Soon after me you will face harsh treatment, so seek help against it from the weak among people."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Husayn bin Abdullah al-Hashimi, whom the majority declared da'if (weak); according to one report Yahya bin Ma'in declared him thiqah (trustworthy), and according to another report he declared him da'if. Al-Bazzar recorded it in abridged form.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Woe to the Arabs from an evil that has drawn near: there will be trials like pieces of the dark night, in which a man will be a believer in the morning and a disbeliever by the evening. People will sell their religion for a paltry worldly gain, and the one who holds fast to his religion will be like one holding an ember in his fist (the narrator is unsure; perhaps the wording is:) holding thorns." In a narration the wording is: "holding a branch of thorns." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say:
Abu Dawud and others recorded it, with the wording: "The one who holds fast to his religion" from there to the end.
Ahmad recorded it; its chain contains Ibn Lahi'ah, in whom there is weakness, and the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih. (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: the remaining hadiths related to this chapter will come in the chapter on patience.

Sayyiduna Utbah bin Ghazwan (may Allah be pleased with him), who was one of the Companions, narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "After you there will come days of patience, and in those days the one who holds firmly to the religion will receive a reward like the reward of fifty of you. The people said: O Messenger of Allah! Will those (fifty) be from among them? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No! Rather (those fifty) will be from among you. The people said: O Prophet of Allah! Will those (fifty) be from among them? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No! Rather from among you." This exchange took place three or perhaps four times.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, from his teacher Bakr bin Sahl, from Abdullah bin Yusuf; both of them have been declared thiqah (trustworthy), and there is disagreement about both of them.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "After you there will come days of patience; patience in them will be like holding an ember in the hand, and the one who does (good) deeds in those days will receive the reward of fifty people. The people said: O Messenger of Allah! The reward of fifty of them, or of fifty of us? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (The reward) of fifty of you."
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded something similar, though he recorded the wording: "The one who holds firmly will have the reward of fifty martyrs. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah! Will they (the martyrs) be from us, or from them? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: From you."
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except Sahl bin Amir al-Bajali, whom Ibn Hibban declared thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Make patience your habit! For soon trials will descend upon you, although you will not face any trial more severe than the kind of trial we faced with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Al-Bazzar recorded it; its chain contains Mujalid, who has been declared thiqah (trustworthy), and there is weakness in him.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Soon a time will come upon you in which you will envy a person whose burdens are few, just as today you envy a person whose wealth and children are many; until (in that time) one of you will pass by his brother's grave and roll about in the dust just as an animal rolls in the dust in its pasture, and he will say: Would that I were in your place! He will not say this out of longing to be presented before Allah Almighty, nor because he has sent ahead some good deed on account of which he would say it; rather he will say it because of the trial that has befallen him."
Al-Bazzar and al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Ali bin Yazid al-Alhani, and he is matruk (abandoned).

It is reported from him that he said: "A time will surely come upon you in which a man will pass by a grave and say: Would that I were in this dead person's place! He will not say this out of longing to be presented before Allah Almighty, but because of the severity of the trial he has faced. It was asked: What will be best at that time? He said: A strong horse and strong weapons, by means of which a man can go wherever he wishes."
Al-Tabarani recorded it with two chains, the narrators of one of which are the narrators of the Sahih, except Abu al-Za'ra' al-Kabir, whom Ibn Hibban declared thiqah (trustworthy) and others declared da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Abu Dharr! What will become of you when you remain among the dregs of people? Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) interlaced his fingers. I said: O Messenger of Allah! What do you command me? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Be patient! Be patient! Get along with people according to their manners, and differ from them in their deeds."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Yazid bin Rabi'ah al-Rahabi, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whoever introduces an innovation, or gives shelter to an innovator, or ascribes himself to someone other than his father, or to someone other than his freeing master, upon him is the curse of Allah Almighty, the angels and all the people; no obligatory or voluntary worship of his will be accepted. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: What will become of you when you remain among people whose covenants and trusts have become mixed up and who have become worthless dregs? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this while interlacing his fingers. The people said: O Messenger of Allah! What should we do? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Be patient, be patient; deal with people according to their manners, and differ from them (the people) in their deeds."
Al-Bazzar recorded it; its chain contains Yazid bin Rabi'ah, and he is matruk (abandoned). Ibn Adi said: I hope that there is no harm in him.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Abdullah bin Amr! What will become of you (when) you remain among the dregs of people? He said: O Messenger of Allah! What will that situation be? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: At that time people's trusts and their covenants will become mixed up, and they will become like this. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this while interlacing his fingers. He said: O Messenger of Allah! What should I do? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Act upon what you recognise as good, abandon what you regard as munkar (or evil), act particularly for your own self, and leave the people (to their condition)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat with two chains, the narrators of one of which are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Soon you will continue to be tested (sifted), until you remain among the dregs of people, whose covenants have become mixed up and whose trusts have been ruined. One of us said: O Messenger of Allah, what should we do then? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Act upon what you recognise as good, abandon what you regard as munkar, and say: O One, O One! Help us against the one who has wronged us, and suffice us against the one who has transgressed against us."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Soon after me there will be favouritism (preferential treatment) and other matters which you will find objectionable. The people said: O Messenger of Allah! What do you command the one who finds that situation? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Fulfil the right that is due from you, and ask Allah Almighty for what is your right." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: The hadith narrated by Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) is in the Sahih.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat and al-Mu'jam al-Saghir; its chain contains Ahmad bin Abd al-Aziz al-Wasiti, and I do not know him; the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that she heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "A time will surely come upon people in which the truthful will be called a liar and the liar will be believed, in which the trustworthy will be deemed treacherous and the treacherous will be made trustworthy; a man will give testimony though his testimony was not sought, and a man will swear an oath though no oath was asked of him; and the most fortunate of people in the world (that is, the one of highest standing in worldly terms) will be a person who is himself a fool and the child of a fool, who does not believe in Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat and al-Mu'jam al-Kabir; its chain contains Abdullah bin Salih, the scribe of al-Layth, and he is da'if (weak), though he has been declared thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Before the Dajjal there will be some years of deception, in which the truthful will be called a liar and the liar will be called truthful, in which the trustworthy will be deemed treacherous and the treacherous will be made trustworthy, and in which the ruwaybidah will speak. It was asked: What is meant by the ruwaybidah? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: A sinful person speaking about the affairs of the general public."
Ahmad, Abu Ya'la, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat recorded it; its chain contains Ibn Ishaq, and he is a mudallis; al-Tabarani's chain contains Ibn Lahi'ah, and he is layyin (weak).

Sayyiduna Amr bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Before the Hour there will be some years of deception, in which the liar will be called truthful and the truthful will be called a liar, in which the treacherous will be made trustworthy and the trustworthy will be deemed treacherous, and in which the ruwaybidah will speak. It was asked: O Messenger of Allah, what is meant by the ruwaybidah? He said: A contemptible person who speaks about the affairs of the general public."

Ibn Ishaq narrates: Abdullah bin Dinar narrated to me something similar from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Al-Bazzar recorded it; in it Ibn Ishaq explicitly stated that he heard it from Abdullah bin Dinar, and the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy). (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: some of these narrations will come in the chapter on the signs of the Hour.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Among the signs of the Hour are indecency, obscene speech, severing the ties of kinship, deeming the trustworthy treacherous, and making the treacherous trustworthy.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), and there is disagreement about some of them.

Abu Sabrah narrates: I met Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him), and he narrated to me the hadiths he had heard from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and dictated those narrations to me. I wrote the narrations down with my own hand and did not add a single letter nor omit a single letter. He narrated this hadith to me: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, Allah Almighty does not love indecency; He dislikes the indecent person and the one who speaks obscenely. And the Hour will not be established until indecency, obscene speech, severing the ties of kinship and bad neighbourliness become widespread, and until the treacherous person is made trustworthy and the trustworthy person is deemed treacherous."
Ahmad recorded it within a long hadith. The name of Abu Sabrah (the narrator) is Salim bin Sabrah; Abu Hatim said: He is majhul (unknown).

Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A time will come upon people in which they will wish for the Dajjal. I said: O Messenger of Allah! May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, what will be the reason for that? He said: Because those people will face so many hardships, one after another."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy); al-Bazzar recorded something similar, and its narrators are also thiqat.

Sayyiduna Abu Umamah al-Bahili (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "People are like a tree bearing fruit, and soon they will become like a tree bearing thorns. If you pull at them, they will pull at you; if you leave them, they will not leave you; and if you flee from them, they will seek you out. The narrator said: O Messenger of Allah, what is the way out of this? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Lend them your goods against the day of your need."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Baqiyyah, and he is a mudallis, and Sadaqah bin Abdullah, who is extremely da'if (weak); Duhaym and Abu Hatim declared him thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The severity of matters will keep increasing, wealth will keep spreading, people's miserliness will keep increasing, and the Hour will be established upon the worst of people."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its narrators have been declared thiqat (trustworthy), and there is weakness in them; he also recorded it with another, da'if (weak), chain.

It is reported about Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "You are in a time in which the prayer is performed long and the sermon is delivered short; the scholars of this time are many and the preachers few. Soon a time will come upon people in which the prayer will be performed short and the sermon delivered long; in that time the preachers will be many and the scholars few. They will delay the prayers, to the point that they will pray the Asr prayer when the sunlight has become faint. Whoever of you finds that time should perform the prayer at its proper time and count the prayer he performs with them as voluntary. You are in a time in which a person is envied for having few dependents and few expenses. I leave behind me among my family none whose death would be dearer to me than theirs, not even a household of dung beetles (ju'lan), and yet I love them just as you love your families."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih; it has another route in the Book of Zuhd (abstinence), and something similar has previously appeared in the Book of Knowledge.

Muhammad bin Zayd bin Khulaydah narrates: Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) came to him while he had set out goods in his house. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Lighten your household furnishings, for soon people will be on camel saddles (that is, on the move).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.