Sayyiduna Isma'il bin Muhammad bin Thabit al-Ansari narrates from his father that Sayyiduna Thabit bin Qays (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah! I fear that I may have been ruined. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Why?" He said: Allah Almighty has forbidden us from loving to be praised for what we have not done, and I find that I love praise; and Allah has forbidden us from arrogance and self-admiration, while I love beauty and elegance; and we have been forbidden from raising our voices above your voice, while I am a man with a loud voice. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Thabit! Are you not pleased that you live a praiseworthy life, are killed as a martyr, and enter Paradise?" He said: Of course, O Messenger of Allah! So he lived a praiseworthy life and was martyred (in the Battle of Yamamah) against Musaylimah the Liar. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it with this wording. However, Imam Muslim alone recorded this hadith in abridged form through the narration of Hammad bin Salamah and Sulayman bin al-Mughirah, via Anas (may Allah be pleased with him): that when the verse "Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet" [Surah al-Hujurat: 2] was revealed, Thabit bin Qays came (and then the whole story is related).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Thabit bin Qays (may Allah be pleased with him) came (to the battlefield) on the day of Yamamah, having applied perfume and put on his shrouds, while his companions were being routed. He said: "O Allah! I declare my innocence before You of what these people (the enemy) have brought, and I apologise to You for what these people (the Muslims) have done. How bad is the habit you have given your peers! Clear the way between us and our enemies." Then he charged and fought until he was martyred. His armour had been stolen, and a man saw him in a dream. He told (him in the dream): "My armour is in a cooking pot under a camel saddle in such-and-such a place." He also made some bequests. So when that place was searched, the armour was found exactly where he had said, and then the people carried out his will. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it. And the account of his bequests has a remarkable story: