It is narrated from Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say concerning the first Muhajirun: "They are the foremost, the intercessors, and those who are confident before their Lord. By the One in Whose hand is my soul! They will come on the Day of Resurrection with weapons on their shoulders, and they will knock at the gate of Paradise. The keepers of Paradise will ask them: 'Who are you?' They will say: 'We are the Muhajirun.' The keepers will ask: 'Has your reckoning been taken?' Then they will fall on their knees, empty out their quivers, raise their hands towards the sky and say: 'O our Lord! For what shall we be reckoned? We left everything behind; we left our homes, our wealth and our children!' Then Allah Almighty will make for them wings of gold set with chrysolite and rubies, and they will fly until they enter Paradise. This is the meaning of Allah's saying: 'And they will say: Praise be to Allah, Who has removed from us all grief' [Surah Fatir: 34-35] ." Hudhayfah (the narrator) says that Sayfi related that Suhayb said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They will know their dwellings in Paradise even better than they knew their homes in this world." This hadith is gharib (singular) in both its chain and its text. I have mentioned it among the virtues of Suhayb because he is one of the first Muhajirun and its narrators are his own descendants. We have written this hadith only from our Shaykh, the ascetic Abu Amr (may Allah have mercy on him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I had already been in the company of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) before revelation came to him. The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have been shown the place of your emigration: it is a salty land lying between two tracts of black volcanic rock (harrah). It is either Hajar or Yathrib (Madinah)." The narrator says: Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) emigrated to Madinah, and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was with him (peace and blessings be upon him). I too intended to set out with him (peace and blessings be upon him), but some young men of Quraysh stopped me. So I spent that night (restlessly), standing up and sitting down, and they said: Allah has afflicted him with a stomach ailment (keeping him away from you), although I had no illness. Then, when they had gone and I had covered some distance, some of them came after me to take me back. I said to them: Would you like me to give you a few uqiyahs of gold, and you let me go on my way and keep your word? So I went back with them to Makkah and said: Dig beneath the threshold of my door, the gold is there; and go to such-and-such a woman and take the two fine garments as well. Then I set out from there and reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) at Quba before he (peace and blessings be upon him) moved on from there (to Madinah). When he (peace and blessings be upon him) saw me, he said three times: "O Abu Yahya! Your trade has been profitable." I submitted: O Messenger of Allah! No one reached you before me; it can only be Jibril (peace be upon him) who informed you of it. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain through the descendants of Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Ibn Jurayj concerning this saying of Allah Almighty, "And among the people is he who sells himself, seeking the pleasure of Allah" [Surah al-Baqarah: 207] , that this verse was revealed about Sayyiduna Suhayb bin Sinan and Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with them both), and that the man who caught up with Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) on the road to Madinah was Qunfudh bin Umayr bin Jud'an. Ibn Jurayj says that Ikrimah, the freed slave of Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), stated that Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) gave all his wealth in Makkah to ransom himself (from the idolaters) and then set out to emigrate; when people caught up with him on the way, he handed over to them the rest of his wealth as well.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Suhayb bin Sinan (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to make this supplication: 'Allahumma innaka lasta bi-ilahin istahdathnahu, wa la bi-rabbin ibtada'nahu, wa la kana lana qablaka min ilahin nalja'u ilayhi wa nadharuk, wa la a'anaka 'ala khalqina ahadun fa-nushrikahu fik, tabarakta wa ta'alayt' (O Allah, You are not a deity whom we have newly contrived, nor a lord whom we have invented; nor did we have any god before You to whom we would turn for refuge and leave You; nor did anyone help You in creating us so that we should make him a partner with You. You are Blessed and Exalted). Ka'b al-Ahbar says that the Prophet of Allah, Sayyiduna Dawud (peace be upon him), also used to make this supplication. The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not bear hatred towards Suhayb." The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Love Suhayb as a mother loves her child."

It is narrated from Sulayman bin Abi Abdullah that Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say to us: Come, let us tell you about our military expeditions; but as for us saying "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said", that we will not do (that is, he avoided saying it out of caution). Imam al-Hakim says that this hadith is explained by the following narration.

It is narrated from Sayfi bin Suhayb that he said: I asked my father, Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him): Why is it that you do not narrate hadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) as the other Companions do? He said: O my dear son! I heard just as they heard, but what prevents me from narrating hadith is that I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever deliberately lies about me will be charged on the Day of Resurrection with tying a knot between the two ends of a grain of barley, and he will never be able to do it (that is, he will face severe punishment)."

It is narrated from al-Miswar bin Makhramah that when Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) was stabbed, (before his martyrdom) he ordered Sayyiduna Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with him), the ally of Banu Jud'an, to lead the people in prayer.