The report is well-preserved. In it al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra corroborated Ibn Luhayʿah’s narration from Mishraḥ.

It was also transmitted by ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shurayḥ al-Maʿāfirī, from Shurāḥīl ibn Yazīd, from Muḥammad ibn Hadiyya al-Ṣadafī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ.

With the chain that goes back to al-Firyābī we were told by Qutaybah, who was told by Ibn Luhayʿah, from Abū Yūnus Sulaym ibn Jubayr—the freedman of Abū Hurayrah—from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet ﷺ said:

“Woe to the Arabs for an evil that has drawn near! Tribulations will fall like patches of a pitch-black night: a man will wake up a believer and reach evening a disbeliever, selling his religion for a trifling share of this world. On that day, the one who manages to hold fast to his religion will be like someone grasping the thorny branches of an acacia or a glowing ember of the ghadā tree. (1)”

Through the same chain he said: Qutaybah narrated to us, Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Aslam Abū ʿImrān, who said:

I heard Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī say, “A man will certainly see days when there is not on his skin even the space of a needle-point that is free of hypocrisy, and he will likewise see days when there is not in him the space of a needle-point that is devoid of faith.” (2)