I asked Abu Thalaba Khashani, "Abu Thalaba, what do you say about this verse, 'you are responsible for yourselves' [Maidah 5:105]?"He replied, "By Allah, you have asked one who knows about it. I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about it, and he said, 'Rather, enjoin what is right upon one another and forbid one another from what is wrong, until you see stinginess obeyed, desires followed, worldly life preferred, and every man with an opinion delighted with his own opinion. Then concern yourself with your own soul and leave the masses alone, for ahead of you lie days of endurance, in which patience will be like grasping hot coals. Whoever acts rightly in those days will have the reward of fifty men who act as he does.'"Another narrator added, someone asked, "Messenger of Allah, the reward of fifty of them?"He answered, "The reward of fifty of you."
سألت أبا ثعلبة الخشني فقلت: يا أبا ثعلبة! كيف تقول في هذه الآية؟ {عليكم أنفسكم}. قال: أما والله لقد سألت عنها خبيرا، سألت عنها رسول الله ﷺ فقال: بل ائتمروا بالمعروف وتناهوا عن المنكر حتى إذا رأيت شحا مطاعا، وهوى متبعا، ودنيا مؤثرة، وإعجاب كل ذي رأي برأيه، فعليك- يعني- بنفسك، ودع عنك العوام، فإن من ورائكم أيام الصبر، الصبر فيه مثل قبض على الجمر، للعامل فيهم مثل أجر خمسين رجلا يعملون مثل عمله. وزادني غيره. قال: يا رسول الله! أجر خمسين منهم؟ قال: أجر خمسين منكم.
(except for its statement "the reward of fifty men") was narrated by Abu Dawud (4341), Tirmidhi (3058), and Ibn Majah (4014), and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (385). All of them narrated it from Utba bin Abu Hakeem, who said, Amr bin Jariya Lakhmi told me, Abu Umaya Shabani told me, and then he related it.Tirmidhi said, "Hasan gharib." Its isnad is hasan, because of Amr bin Jariya, from whom two people narrated, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators, and because of his teacher Abu Umaya Shabani, from whom a group of people narrated, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators as well.As for its statement, "the one who works among them has a reward like that of fifty men," this is munkar, for it has no basis to support it.