It is narrated from Sayyidah Asma bint Umays al-Khath'amiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Wretched is the servant who is lost in fancies and behaves arrogantly, and forgets the Great, the Most High. Wretched is the servant who is heedless and absorbed in amusement, and forgets his beginning and his end. Wretched is the servant who transgresses and rebels, and forgets the graves and (the body's) decay. Wretched is the servant who trades his religion for the world. Wretched is the servant who deceives the religion through doubtful matters. Wretched is the servant whom (unjust) awe and fear turn away from the truth. Wretched is the servant whose reins are in the hands of his greed. And wretched is the servant whose desire leads him astray." None of the narrators in the chain of this hadith is attributed with any criticism, and when the narrators are like this, the hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You will certainly be picked out (through trials) just as good dates are picked out from a bowl. The best of you will depart and the worst of you will remain; so (if you wish to escape the trials), die if you are able to." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, and Abu Humayd refers to al-Ta'ini.