Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated that Hazrat Hassan bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) sought permission from the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) to satirize the polytheists (Quraysh). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "But I am also from their family." Upon this, Hassan (may Allah be pleased with him) submitted, "I will separate you (in poetry) as clearly as a hair is separated from flour."

Hazrat Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: You think that Abu Hurairah narrates many ahadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), to Allah we all have to return. The matter was that I was a poor man and after filling my stomach, I would always stay with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but the Muhajirun were kept busy by business in the market and the Ansar were occupied with looking after their wealth. One day I was present in the service of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and he said: Who will spread his sheet until I finish my words, and then gather it up, and after that never forget any word he has heard from me? So I spread the sheet that was on my body, and by Him who sent the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with the truth, after that I never forgot any hadith that I heard from him.

Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me, Zubair, and Miqdad bin Aswad (may Allah be pleased with them) on a mission and said: When you reach Rawdat Khakh (which is the name of a place twelve miles from Madinah), there you will find an old woman riding a camel, and she will have a letter with her. Take that letter from her. We set out, and our horses carried us swiftly. Eventually, we reached Rawdat Khakh, and indeed, there was an old woman riding a camel. We said to her,“Take out the letter.”She said,“I have no letter with me.”But when we threatened her that if she did not produce the letter, we would strip her clothes ourselves, she then took out the letter from within her braided hair and gave it to us. We brought it to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Its contents were as follows: From Hatib bin Abi Balta’ah to a few men among the polytheists of Makkah, in which he had informed them of some secrets of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Hatib! What is this matter? He replied: O Messenger of Allah! Do not be hasty regarding me. My position (in Makkah) was that I had chosen to live among the Quraysh, but I had no blood relation with them. The other emigrants who are with you, all of them have relatives in Makkah, and for that reason, the people of Makkah will protect their relatives and their wealth. But I have no such relationship with the people of Makkah. Therefore, I thought I would do them a favor so that, because of it, they might protect my relatives in Makkah. I did not do this out of disbelief or apostasy, nor after accepting Islam did I become pleased with disbelief. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) heard this and said: Hatib has spoken the truth. Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah! Allow me to strike off the head of this hypocrite. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No, he fought in the Battle of Badr (along with the Muslims), and you do not know, Allah Almighty already knew the conditions of the warriors of Badr (until their death), and He Himself has said:“Do whatever you wish, I have forgiven you.”

Hazrat Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that I was near the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he was descending from Ji'ranah, which is a place between Makkah and Madinah. Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) was with you. During this time, a Bedouin came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said, "Why do you not fulfill what you promised me?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Glad tidings to you." Upon this, the Bedouin replied, "You have given me many glad tidings." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned his blessed face towards Abu Musa and Bilal; he seemed very angry. He said, "He has rejected the glad tidings, so you both accept it." Both of them said, "We have accepted." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked for a bowl of water, washed his hands and face in it, rinsed his mouth in it, and (to Abu Musa Ash'ari and Bilal, may Allah be pleased with them both) said, "Drink from this water and pour it over your faces and chests, and receive glad tidings." Both of them took the bowl and acted accordingly. From behind the curtain, Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) also said, "Leave some for your mother." So they left a portion for her.

Hazrat Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) finished the Battle of Hunayn, he sent Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) with a detachment towards the valley of Autas. In this battle, there was a confrontation with Duraid ibn as-Simmah. Duraid was killed and Allah Almighty defeated his army. Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had also sent me with Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him). An arrow struck Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) in the knee. A man from Banu Jusham had shot the arrow at him and it lodged in his knee. I reached him and said, "Uncle! Who threw this arrow at you?" He indicated to Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Jushami is my killer, the one who targeted me. I rushed towards him and when I got close, he saw me and fled. I chased him and kept saying, "Aren't you ashamed? Won't you face me?" Eventually, he stopped and we struck at each other with swords. I killed him and went back to Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) and said, "Allah has caused your killer to be killed." He said, "Take the arrow out of my (knee)." I took it out and water started to flow from it. Then he said, "Nephew! Convey my greetings to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and request him to pray for my forgiveness." Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) appointed me as his deputy over the people. After that, he lived a little while longer and attained martyrdom. I returned and reached the service of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He was sitting in his house on a bed made of palm branches. There was no bedding on it, and the marks of the palm branches were visible on his back and side. I narrated to him the events concerning myself and Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him), and that he had requested a prayer for forgiveness. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked for water and performed ablution, then raised his hands and prayed, "O Allah! Forgive Ubaid Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him)." I saw whiteness under your armpits (when you were praying). Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed, "O Allah! On the Day of Resurrection, grant Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) a rank higher than many of Your creatures." I said, "And pray to Allah for my forgiveness as well." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed, "O Allah! Forgive the sins of Abdullah ibn Qais Abu Musa and grant him a good position on the Day of Resurrection." Abu Burdah (may Allah be pleased with him) (the narrator of the hadith) stated that one prayer was for Abu Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) and the other was for Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him).

Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When my Ash‘ari companions come at night, I recognize them by the sound of their recitation of the Qur’an, even though during the day I may not have seen their dwellings. But when at night they recite the Qur’an, I recognize their dwellings by their voices. Among these Ash‘ari companions of mine, there is a wise man who, when he encounters riders somewhere—or he (the Prophet) said: with the enemy—he says to them: My friends have said that you should wait for them for a little while.

Hazrat Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When the people of the Ash'ar tribe run short of provisions during a campaign, or when the food for their families in Madinah becomes scarce, whatever provisions they have, they gather them together in a cloth and then distribute them among themselves equally in one container. So they are from me and I am from them.

Hazrat Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that when we received the news of the migration of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), we were in Yemen. Therefore, we also set out with the intention of migrating to the service of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). Myself and my two brothers—I was the youngest of them. One of my brothers was named Abu Burda (may Allah be pleased with him) and the other Abu Rahm. He said that there were a little more than fifty, or he narrated it as fifty-three (53) or fifty-two (52) people from my tribe who were with us. We boarded a boat, but our boat brought us to the land of Najashi, in Abyssinia. There we met Ja'far bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), who had already migrated there from Mecca. We stayed there with him, then all of us set out together for Madinah. We reached the service of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) at a time when he had already conquered Khaybar. Some people, meaning those who had migrated by boat, began to say to us that they had migrated before us. And Asma bint Umais (may Allah be pleased with her), who had come to Madinah with us, went to visit Umm al-Mu'mineen Hafsa (may Allah be pleased with her). She (Asma) had also migrated with those who went to the land of Najashi. Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) also came to the house of Hafsa (may Allah be pleased with her). At that time, Asma bint Umais (may Allah be pleased with her) was present there. When Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saw her, he asked, "Who is this?" Umm al-Mu'mineen (may Allah be pleased with her) replied, "Asma bint Umais." Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "Oh, is she the one who came by sea from Abyssinia?" Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) replied, "Yes." Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to her, "We have preceded you in migration, so we are closer to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) than you." Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) became very angry at this and said, "Never! By Allah, you people were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him); if any of you were hungry, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would feed him, and if anyone was ignorant, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would advise and admonish him. But we were far away, living in the land of strangers and enemies in Abyssinia. All of this we did only for Allah and His Messenger. By Allah! I will neither eat food nor drink water until I have conveyed your words to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). We were tormented, threatened, and frightened. I will mention this to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and ask him about it. By Allah, I will neither lie, nor deviate, nor add anything (contrary to the truth)." So when the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) arrived, she said, "O Prophet of Allah! Umar says such things." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked, "Then what did you reply to him?" She said, "I replied to him such and such." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "They are not closer to me than you. They and their companions have only one migration, but you, the people of the boat, have the honor of two migrations." She narrated that after this incident, Abu Musa and all the people of the boat began to come to me in groups and ask me about this hadith. For them, nothing in this world was more pleasing and a source of pride than this statement of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) about them. Abu Burda (the narrator of the hadith) narrated that Hazrat Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) said that Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) used to listen to this hadith from me repeatedly.

Hazrat Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that this verse was revealed about us (i.e., Banu Haritha and Banu Salama): (idh hammat ta'ifatani minkum an tafshala) (Aal-e-Imran: 122) "When two parties from among you were about to lose heart." I do not wish that this verse had not been revealed, because Allah further says, "And Allah was their protector." (So, how great an honor it is for us to have received Allah's guardianship.)

Hazrat Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that I was greatly grieved over those who were martyred at the place of Harrah. Hazrat Zaid bin Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him) came to know of my sorrow, so he wrote to me that he had heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who was saying: O Allah! Forgive the Ansar and also forgive their sons.