It is narrated from Habib bin Abi Thabit that Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) in Basrah. He vacated his house for him and said: "I will treat you just as you treated the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." Then he asked: "How much debt do you owe?" He said: "Twenty thousand." So he gave him forty thousand and twenty slaves, and said: "Everything in the house is yours."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari was saying in a gathering: "Is none of you able to recite a third of the Qur'an every night?" The people said: We are not able to do that. He said: "Indeed, 'Say: He is Allah, the One' is equal to a third of the Qur'an." The narrator says: Just then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived and heard what Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub said, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Abu Ayyub has spoken the truth."