"Whoever perishes, and if their religion is established for them, it will be established for them seventy years before." He said: I asked, "Is that from what is to come or from what has passed?" He replied: "From what has passed."(1)

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(1) A sound hadith, but this chain of transmission is weak due to the unknown status of al-Bara' ibn Najiyah. Al-Bukhari said in his "al-Tarikh al-Kabir" 2/118: He did not mention hearing from Ibn Mas'ud. However, he has a supporting chain. Mansur: he is Ibn al-Mu'tamir, and Sufyan: he is Ibn Sa'id al-Thawri, and 'Abd al-Rahman: he is Ibn Mahdi.

It was also narrated by al-Tayalisi (383), Nu'aym ibn Hammad in "al-Fitan" (1963) and (1965), Ahmad in his "Musnad" (3730), (3731), and (3758), Ya'qub ibn Sufyan in "al-Ma'rifah wa al-Tarikh" 3/355, Ibrahim ibn al-Husayn ibn Dizayl in "Sirat 'Ali" as cited in Ibn Kathir's "al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah" 7/286, Abu Ya'la (5281), al-Tahawi in "Sharh Mushkil al-Athar" (1609), (1611), and (1613), Ibn al-A'rabi in his "Mu'jam" (835), (836), and (1469), al-Khattabi in "Gharib al-Hadith" 1/549, al-Hakim 3/101 and 114, al-Bayhaqi in "Dala'il al-Nubuwwah" 6/393, and al-Baghawi (4225), via the chain of Mansur ibn al-Mu'tamir, with this chain of transmission.

It was also narrated by Ahmad (3707), Abu Ya'la (5009) and (5298), al-Bazzar (1996) and (1997), al-Tahawi (1610), Ibn al-A'rabi in his "Mu'jam" (1470), Ibn Hibban (6664), al-Tabarani in "al-Kabir" (10356), and al-Khattabi in "Gharib al-Hadith" 1/549, via the chain of al-Qasim ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, from his father, from his grandfather.

Its chain of transmission is sound, and more than one scholar has confirmed that 'Abd al-Rahman heard from his father.

It was also narrated by al-Bazzar (1942), and following the hadith (1997), Ibn Dizayl as cited in "al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah" 7/286, al-Tahawi in "Sharh Mushkil al-Athar" (1612), and al-Tabarani (10311), via the chain of Sharik al-Nakha'i, from Mujalid ibn Sa'id, from 'Amir al-Sha'bi, from Masruq, from 'Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud.

It was also narrated as a stopped (mawquf) report by al-Tabarani in "al-Kabir" (9159), via the chain of Abu al-Ahwas, from 'Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud. Its chain of transmission is sound. Al-Tabarani said following it: Thus Abu al-Ahwas narrated it as a stopped report, while Masruq, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Abd Allah, and al-Bara' ibn Najiyah raised it (as a marfu' report). =