I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Al-Minhal ibn ‘Amr was trustworthy and among al-Bukhari’s narrators, although there has been some non-detrimental criticism of him. As for Nu‘aym ibn Dajajah, Ibn Abi Hatim mentioned him (4/1/461), citing two other trustworthy narrators who transmitted from him, but did not mention any criticism or accreditation concerning him. Ibn Hibban included him in his work on the trustworthy Successors (5/478). It appears that he was alive during the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him; for this reason, al-Hafiz held that those who compiled works on the Companions should include him among them. See his work al-Tahdhib.

The hadith has many supporting reports in the two Sahihs and elsewhere. I have traced a number of them in al-Rawd al-Nadir, under the hadith of Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri that conveys the same meaning (1100); it is found in Sahih Muslim and Sahih Ibn Hibban.

Al-Haythami cited the hadith in Majma‘ al-Zawa’id (1/198) and said: “It was narrated by Ahmad, Abu Ya‘la, and al-Tabarani in al-Kabir and al-Awsat, and its narrators are trustworthy.” The meaning of the hadith is that no one alive on the face of the earth at that time would remain alive after one hundred years. It does not negate the life of anyone born after that. See Fath al-Bari (1/211–212).

2907 — “If the son of Adam had two valleys of wealth—or, in another narration, of gold—he would seek a third [valley]. Nothing fills the belly of the son of Adam except dust, yet Allah accepts the repentance of whoever repents.”

I say: This is an authentic, mass-transmitted hadith from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. It was narrated from him by a group of his Companions in similar wordings, and I have traced it from a number of them in Takhrij Ahadith