It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Rafi' (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "For you there is (a stream of giving) from Allah until you are pleased." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of transmission, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna al-Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: One day I was in the Masjid when Abu Jahl came and said: "By Allah, if I see Muhammad in prostration, I will trample on his neck." I went to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him of what Abu Jahl had said. He (peace and blessings be upon him) came out in a state of anger and came to the Masjid. He (peace and blessings be upon him) was in such a hurry to enter that, rather than the door, he leapt over the wall and went in. I said (to myself): Today is a day of some great trial. So I tightened my waist-wrapper and followed him (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) entered and recited these verses: "Read in the name of your Lord who created. He created man from a clinging clot" [Surah al-Alaq: 1-2] . When he (peace and blessings be upon him) reached the verse concerning Abu Jahl: "No! Indeed, man transgresses, because he sees himself self-sufficient" [Surah al-Alaq: 6-7] , a man said to Abu Jahl: O Abu al-Hakam, this is Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Abu Jahl said: Do you not see what I see? By Allah, all the paths of the horizon of the sky have been blocked for me. Then when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) reached the end of the surah, he (peace and blessings be upon him) prostrated. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of transmission, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: One night I was with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Look, do you see anything in the sky?" I said: Yes. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What do you see?" I said: The Pleiades (a cluster of stars). At this he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Listen! Surely from your loins as many people as the number of (the stars of the Pleiades) will become rulers of this Ummah." Ubayd bin Abi Qurrah is alone in narrating this hadith from al-Layth, and had our Imam Abu Zakariyya (may Allah have mercy on him) not approved of him, he would never have narrated such a hadith from him.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) set out (on a journey) in the season of intense heat and camped at a place. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up to take a bath, and Sayyiduna al-Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him) screened him (peace and blessings be upon him) with a woollen sheet. Sahl says: I looked at the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) from one side of the sheet; he (peace and blessings be upon him) had raised his blessed head towards the sky and was supplicating: 'Allahumma-stur al-Abbasa wa waladahu min an-nar' (O Allah, screen al-Abbas and his children from the Fire (of Hell)). This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of transmission, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Harithah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: When Safwan bin Umayyah bin Khalaf al-Jumahi came, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked him: "O Abu Wahb, with whom are you staying?" He said: With al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You are staying with the man of Quraysh who loves Quraysh the most." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of transmission, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Khuraym bin Aws bin Harithah bin Lam (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I emigrated to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on his return from the Battle of Tabuk and accepted Islam. Then I heard Sayyiduna al-Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him) say: O Messenger of Allah, I wish to compose praise of you. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Say it, may Allah keep your mouth sound." At this al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said (in verse): "Before this (coming into the world) you were pure in the shades and in that place of safekeeping when leaves were being stitched together (upon Adam and Eve in Paradise). Then you descended to the earth, being at that time neither a human, nor a lump of flesh, nor a clot of blood. Rather you were a drop of seed that rode in the Ark, while the flood had bridled Nasr (the idol) and its worshippers. You were moved from one loin to another womb; whenever one world (generation) passed, another layer appeared. Until your eminent house attained that height of (the tribe of) Khindif beneath which were many ranks. And when you were born, the earth shone and the horizon was lit by your light. So we are travelling in that radiance, that light, and the paths of guidance." These Bedouin (desert-dwelling) narrators are alone in narrating this hadith from their fathers, and narrators like them are not declared weak.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I was present with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on the day of the Battle of Hunayn. Abu Sufyan bin al-Harith bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him) and I stuck close to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and did not leave him alone. At that time the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was riding a white mule of his which Farwah bin Nufathah al-Judhami had given him as a gift. When the Muslims and the disbelievers clashed, the Muslims turned their backs and began to retreat. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) began urging his mule towards the disbelievers. Al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I was holding the bridle of the mule of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), holding it back so that it would not run too fast, and Abu Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him) was holding the stirrup of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Abbas, call out to the people of the Samurah (those who gave the Pledge of Ridwan beneath the tree)." Al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) says: By Allah, when they heard my voice they turned back just as a cow eagerly turns back to its calves, and they said: "Here we are, here we are!" Then they and the disbelievers began to fight, and a call was raised among the Ansar; they were saying: "O company of the Ansar!" Then this call was narrowed down to Banu al-Harith bin al-Khazraj, and they began saying: "O Banu al-Harith bin al-Khazraj! O Banu al-Harith bin al-Khazraj!" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), riding on his mule, raised his neck and began watching their fighting. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Now the oven of battle has blazed up (that is, the battle has become fierce)." Al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took some pebbles and threw them towards the faces of the disbelievers, then said: "By the Lord of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), they are defeated!" I began to look, and the state of the battle was still just as I had been seeing it; but as soon as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) struck them with the pebbles, from then on I kept seeing their strength grow blunt and them retreating. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was preparing an army, or inspecting it, at Naqi' al-Khayl (which was a pasture for horses), when Sayyiduna al-Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him) appeared. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is al-Abbas, the paternal uncle of your Prophet, the most generous-handed of Quraysh and the most kind and compassionate towards them." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of transmission, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set out to prepare an army. Then his gaze fell on Sayyiduna al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is al-Abbas, the paternal uncle of the Prophet, the most generous-handed of Quraysh and the one who most maintains ties of kinship with them."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man mentioned one of the (ancestral) elders of Sayyiduna Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) disparagingly, whereupon Sayyiduna Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) slapped him. Then that man's tribesmen gathered and said: By Allah! He too will slap Abbas just as he slapped him. This reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so he (peace and blessings be upon him) delivered a sermon and said: "Who among people is the most honoured in the sight of Allah?" The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah! You are. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, Abbas is from me and I am from him. Do not revile our dead, for by that you would hurt the living." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.