167 – “Toward the end of time there will be people who sit in the mosques … for whom Allah has no need.”

Narrated by al-Ṭabarānī from Ibn Masʿūd.
Weak: al-Thamar al-Mustaṭāb (680–682).
Later graded sound: al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah 1163.

168 – “Swords are the keys to Paradise.”

Narrated by Abū Bakr in al-Ghaylāniyyāt and by Ibn ʿAsākir from Yazīd ibn Shajara.
Weak: al-Silsilah al-Daʿīfah 3740.
Later graded sound: al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah 2672.

169 – “The Prophet offered the funeral prayer for a deceased person three days after his death.”

Narrated by al-Bayhaqī and by Qat. from Ibn ʿAbbās.
Irregular (shādh): Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl 736.
Later graded sound: al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah 3031.

170 – “I did this—meaning the combining of two prayers—so that my ummah would not be put to hardship.”

Narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsat from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd.
Weak: al-Silsilah al-Daʿīfah 1212.
Later graded sound: al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah 2837.