when a time will come upon people such that a small flock of sheep will be dearer to its owner than the palace of Marwān.⦗1⦘

This report was recorded by al-Bukhārī in the Book of Manners, through Ibn Abī Uways from Mālik. Al-Nasāʾī, moreover, judged Ḥumayd to be reliable.

Hushaym related—from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from Maymūn ibn Maysarah—who said:
“Abū Hurayrah had two loud calls each day, one at the start of the day and one at its close. He would say, ‘The night is gone and the day has arrived, and the clan of Pharaoh are being exposed to the Fire,’ and everyone who heard him would seek refuge with Allah from the Fire.⦗2⦘

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān narrated: al-Walīd ibn Zawrān told us, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Madani told me that
he had heard that a man entered upon Muʿāwiyah and said, “I passed through Madinah and found Abū Hurayrah sitting in the mosque, a circle gathered around him while he was teaching them. He kept saying, ‘My intimate friend, Abū al-Qāsim—peace and blessings be upon him—told me…,’ then he was overcome, wept, resumed and said, ‘My intimate friend—peace and blessings be upon him—the Prophet of Allah, Abū al-Qāsim, told me…,’ then again he was overcome and wept, after which he rose and left.”⦗3⦘

Ibn Luhayʿah narrated—from Abū Yūnus, from Abū Hurayrah—that he once led the people in prayer. After concluding with the salām, he raised his voice and said, “Praise be to Allah, who has made the religion stand firm and has made Abū Hurayrah an imām, after I had been a mere hired hand for the daughter of Ghazwān, earning no more than a full stomach and the load upon my legs.”⦗4⦘