Reports on the virtue of this Ummah

Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) states: I heard the Messenger of Allah, Sayyiduna Abu al-Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him), say: "Indeed Allah Almighty said: 'O Isa! After you I will send a nation who, if what they love befalls them, will praise and give thanks, and if what they dislike befalls them, will hope for reward and be patient, even though they will have no forbearance and no knowledge.' Sayyiduna Isa (peace be upon him) said: 'O my Lord! How will this be granted to them when they have neither forbearance nor knowledge?' Allah Almighty said: 'I will give them from My forbearance and My knowledge.'"
Ahmad and al-Bazzar recorded it, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. The narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih, except al-Hasan bin Sawwar and Abu Halbas Yazid bin Maysarah, and both of them are also thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "I am your share among the Prophets, and you are my share among the nations."
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih except Abu Habibah al-Ta'i; al-Tirmidhi declared one hadith narrated by him sahih (authentic), and Ibn Hibban mentioned him in Kitab al-Thiqat.

Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The example of my Ummah is like that of rain: it is not known whether its first part is better or its last part."
Ahmad, al-Bazzar and al-Tabarani recorded it. The narrators of al-Bazzar are the narrators of the Sahih, except al-Hasan bin Qaza'ah and Ubayd bin Sulayman al-Agharr, and both of them are thiqat (trustworthy); there is a difference of opinion about Ubayd that does no harm.

Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The example of my Ummah is like rain: Allah Almighty has placed goodness in its first part, and He has placed goodness in its last part as well."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Musa bin Ubaydah al-Rabadhi, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The example of my Ummah is like rain: it is not known whether its first part is better, or its last part."
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; the chain of al-Bazzar is hasan (good). He (al-Bazzar) said: It has not been narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with a better chain than this.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The example of my Ummah is like rain: it is not known whether its first part is better or its last part."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Ubays bin Maymun, who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The example of my Ummah is like rain: it is not known whether its first part is better, or its last part."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Abd al-Rahman bin Ziyad bin An'um, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not come out to us for a long time, until, when we thought that he (peace and blessings be upon him) would not come out now, he (peace and blessings be upon him) came out and he (peace and blessings be upon him) prostrated, until we thought that perhaps his soul had been taken in that prostration. When he (peace and blessings be upon him) raised his head, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"My Lord consulted me about my Ummah: what should I do with them? I submitted: O my Lord, do whatever You will; they are Your creation and Your servants. The Lord consulted me a second time, and I submitted the same thing. The Lord said: O Muhammad, We will not grieve you concerning your Ummah."
(The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:) "The Lord informed me: The first of my Ummah to enter Paradise will be seventy thousand people, and with every thousand of them there will be another seventy thousand, and no reckoning will be taken from them."
Then He (the Lord) sent a message to me and said:
"Supplicate, and it will be answered; ask, and you will be given. So I said to His messenger: Will my Lord give me whatever I ask? The messenger said: He has sent me to you only so that He may give you that (that is, whatever you ask). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I do not say this as a boast: my Lord has granted me this: that He has forgiven my past and future sins, and now I walk about alive and sound; He granted me that my Ummah will not suffer famine and will not be overcome; and He granted me al-Kawthar, which is a river of Paradise that flows into my Pond.
And He granted me might, help and awe, which will go before my Ummah for the distance of a month; and He granted me that I will be the first of the Prophets to enter Paradise; and He made the spoils of war pure (that is, lawful) for me and for my Ummah; and He made lawful for us many things regarding which He had been strict with those before us; and He did not impose any hardship upon us."
Ahmad recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin Asid (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Last night my Ummah was presented before me in this room, until I came to recognise each person among them better than any one of you recognises his companion." One of those present said: O Messenger of Allah, these presented before you were those of them who have already been created; what then do you say about those who have not yet been created? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Their forms were presented before me. By the One in whose hand my soul is, I came to recognise any person among them better than a man recognises his companion."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Ziyad bin al-Mundhir, who is a kadhdhab (liar).

Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) Ummah was presented before him, and I was standing behind him. When he finished and turned towards me, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Were you here? Did you hear?" I submitted: Yes.
Al-Bazzar recorded it; its chain contains Zakariyya bin Yahya (al-Kisa'i), who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The number of my Ummah on the earth will be greater than the number of pebbles—(the narrator is in doubt, or perhaps the words are:)—the number of raindrops."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Suwayd bin Ibrahim Abu Hatim, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Part of every Ummah will go to Hell and part of it will go to Paradise, except that the case of my Ummah is different: all of them will go to Paradise."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Saghir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Hajjaj bin Rishdin, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "My Ummah is an Ummah shown mercy; grace will be shown to them. They will enter their graves with their sins, and when they come out of their graves no sin will remain upon them; their sins will be wiped away because of the believers' prayers for forgiveness for them."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat from his teacher Ahmad bin Tahir bin Harmalah, who is a kadhdhab (liar).

Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Paradise is forbidden to the Prophets until I enter it, and it is forbidden to the other nations until my Ummah enters it."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains Sadaqah bin Abdullah al-Samin, whom Abu Hatim and others declared thiqah (trustworthy), while a group declared him da'if (weak); the chain of this narration is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Paradise is forbidden to all the nations until I and my Ummah enter it, one after another."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Kharijah bin Mus'ab, who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abd al-Yamani (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If I were to swear an oath, I would be true in it: that no one will enter Paradise before my Ummah."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains Baqiyyah, who is thiqah (trustworthy), but he is a mudallis.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated for his Ummah, saying: "O Allah, turn their hearts towards obedience to You, and encompass those after them with Your mercy."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain contains Abu Shaybah, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
"For one nation among the nations this example has been given: their example is like labourers whom a man hires to work for him the whole day, and he will give each of those labourers one qirat. Then those labourers begin to work until, when it is midday, they become weary. They say to that man: Settle our account. He settles their account, and those labourers' share comes to half a qirat. That man says: Who will work for me until night? He will be given one qirat each. So some other people strike a deal with him and keep working, until, when it is near the time of the Asr prayer, they become weary and say: Settle our account. He settles their account, and those people receive half a qirat each.
That man wants his work to be completed before night falls, so he hires a people on the condition that they complete for him the remaining work by night, and they will receive two qirats each. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I hope, if Allah wills, that you will be the ones who receive two qirats each (that is, you will do little work and receive a greater reward and recompense from the court of Allah Almighty)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Abu Malik al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You are an Ummah shown mercy, one that has been pardoned; so remain upright and hold to what is within your capacity in the matter."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Abd al-Wahhab bin al-Dahhak, who is a kadhdhab (liar).

Sulayman bin Dawud al-Khawlani narrates: I heard Umar bin Abd al-Aziz say to Abu Burdah: Narrate to us a hadith in which there is no other intermediary between you and your father. So Abu Burdah said: I heard my father (that is, Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him)) say: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "My Ummah is a sanctified, blessed Ummah shown mercy; there will be no punishment upon them on the Day of Resurrection; their punishment will be in this world, among themselves, through trials (fitan)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it with two chains; one of them contains a man named al-Qasim, a resident of Hims, whom I do not know. The narrators of this report are the narrators of the Sahih, except for Amr bin Qays al-Sakuni, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "In conduct and ways, you are the Ummah that most resembles the Children of Israel."
Al-Bazzar recorded it; its chain contains Layth bin Abi Sulaym, who is a mudallis, and the remaining narrators of this report are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: On the Day of Resurrection, when Allah Almighty gathers the creation, He will grant the Ummah of Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) permission to prostrate, and they will perform a long prostration before Him. Then it will be said to them: Raise your heads, for We have made as many people as your number a ransom for you from Hell.
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Abd al-A'la bin Abi al-Musawir, who is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The people of Paradise will be in one hundred and twenty rows, and of them my Ummah will be 80 rows."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains al-Qasim bin Ghusn, who is da'if (weak). I say: The remaining hadiths on this subject will come later in the chapter on the description of Paradise, in which the entry of a great many people of this Ummah into Paradise is mentioned, if Allah wills.