It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that he came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was suffering from a severe fever, and there was a sheet over him (peace and blessings be upon him). He placed his hand on the sheet and felt the heat even from above the sheet. So Abu Sa'id said: "O Messenger of Allah! How severe your fever is!" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Such is our (the prophets') case: trials are made severe for us and our reward is also doubled." Then he asked: "O Messenger of Allah! Who among people are tried most severely?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The prophets." He asked: "Then who?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The scholars." He asked: "Then who?" He said: "Then the righteous. One of them would be tried with poverty to such an extent that he had nothing to wear except a single cloak, and another would be tried with lice (in great number) until they killed him; and one of them would be happier with his trial than any of you is with a gift (from Allah)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, because he used Hisham bin Sa'd as evidence. Moreover, it has many supporting narrations, and the hadith of Asim bin Bahdalah from Mus'ab bin Sa'd from his father has many routes that are discussed in the study circles of knowledge, and al-Ala' bin al-Musayyab corroborated Asim bin Bahdalah (in narrating it from Mus'ab bin Sa'd).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked: "Who among people are tried most severely?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The prophets, then those who are best (in rank) after them, then those who are best after them. When a man is firm in his religion, he is tried according to the measure of his religion: the one whose religion is solid, his trial is severe, and the one whose religion is weak, his trial is (correspondingly) lighter." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): "Who are tried most severely?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The prophets, then those who are best in rank, then those who are best after them. A man is tried according to his religion: if he is firm in religion, his trial becomes severe, and if there is softness (weakness) in his religion, he is tried according to his religion. Then trials continue to come upon the servant until they leave him walking upon the earth with no sin remaining upon him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the appointed time of death of one of you is (decreed) in a particular land, some need is created for him there; then when he reaches the furthest point of his footsteps there, Allah causes him to die. Then on the Day of Resurrection that land will say: 'O my Lord! This is the trust that You placed in my keeping.'" The two Shaykhs used all the narrators of this hadith as evidence, and there is agreement on recording the narrations of Umar bin Ali al-Muqaddami in the "Sahihayn" (the two Sahihs). Muhammad bin Khalid al-Wahbi also corroborated him in his chain from Isma'il.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the death of one of you is destined in a particular land, some need is provided for him there and he sets out for it; then when he reaches the furthest point of his footsteps there, his soul is taken there. Then on the Day of Resurrection that land will say: 'O my Lord! This is the trust that You left with me.'" Hushaym narrated it from Isma'il bin Abi Khalid with a connected chain (musnad).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When the appointed time of death of one of you is (decreed) in a particular land, some need is created for him there, and by means of it Allah completes (his term) there. Then on the Day of Resurrection the land will say: 'O my Lord! This is Your trust that You handed over to me.'" Three trustworthy narrators narrated this hadith from Isma'il with a connected chain (musnad), whereas Sufyan bin Uyaynah narrated it as the saying of the Companion (mawquf); and our condition is to accept an addition from a trustworthy narrator in connecting the chain and in the chain itself. This hadith also has supporting narrations on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Matar bin Ukamis (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When Allah decrees that a man is to die in a certain town, He creates some need for him there."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Matar bin Ukamis al-Abdi (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whatever land Allah appoints for the time of a man's death, He creates some need for him there." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), because both of them took narrations from a group of Companions each of whom has only one narrator (from him). It also has another supporting narration from the narration of trustworthy narrators.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Azzah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When Allah intends to take the soul of a servant in a certain land, He creates some need for him there." This is a sahih (authentic) hadith, and all of its narrators are trustworthy.

I heard Abu al-Abbas Muhammad bin Ya'qub say that Abbas bin Muhammad al-Duri said: I heard Yahya bin Ma'in saying: "The name of Abu Azzah is Yasar bin Abd, and he is a Companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." As for Abu al-Malih, I heard al-Hafiz Ali bin Umar (al-Daraqutni) saying: "It is incumbent upon Imam Bukhari and Muslim to record the hadith of Abu al-Malih from Abu Azzah, because Bukhari used the hadith of Abu al-Malih from Buraydah as evidence, and the hadith of Abu Azzah has been narrated by a group of trustworthy hafiz scholars."