It is narrated from Alqamah bin Rimthah al-Balawi (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) to Bahrain. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) set out with a detachment and we were with him (peace and blessings be upon him). Drowsiness came over the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) for a while; then, when he (peace and blessings be upon him) woke up, he said: "May Allah Almighty have mercy on Amr." The narrator says: We began mentioning among ourselves every person whose name was Amr. Then drowsiness came over him (peace and blessings be upon him) a second time; he woke up and said: "May Allah Almighty have mercy on Amr." Then drowsiness came a third time; he woke up and said: "May Allah Almighty have mercy on Amr." We said: O Messenger of Allah! Which Amr is he? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Amr bin al-As." The people asked: What about him? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I remembered him. Whenever I urged the people to give charity, he would bring charity in great abundance. I would ask him: Where did you get this from? And he would reply: From Allah. And Amr spoke the truth; indeed, Amr has a great deal of good." Zuhayr (the narrator) says: So when the tribulation (fitnah) broke out, I thought: I will follow this man about whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said these words. So I never parted from him. This hadith is sahih in its chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) that ever since we accepted Islam, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not regard anyone of his Companions as equal to me and Khalid bin al-Walid (may Allah be pleased with him) in matters of war.

It is narrated from Mus'ab bin Abdullah that among Banu al-Muttalib bin Abd Manaf is Qays bin Makhramah bin al-Muttalib bin Abd Manaf. His mother, Asma' bint Amir, was a woman of the Ansar.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Qays bin Makhramah bin al-Muttalib bin Abd Manaf (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and I were both born in the Year of the Elephant ('Am al-Fil), so we are of the same age."

It is narrated from Khalifah bin Khayyat that the mother of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Hisham bin Zuhrah (may Allah be pleased with him) (who was from Banu Asad bin Khuzaymah, and whose name was Amatullah bint Abd Shams) brought him to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) while he was still a small child. He (peace and blessings be upon him) passed his blessed hand over his head but did not take the pledge of allegiance from him (because of his young age).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Hisham (may Allah be pleased with him) (who had lived in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)) that his mother brought him to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed his hand over his head and supplicated for him (for blessing). He used to sacrifice a single goat on behalf of his entire household (following the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Hisham (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was holding the hand of Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "By Allah, O Messenger of Allah! You are dearer to me than everything in the world except my own self." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No, by the One in whose Hand is my soul! (Faith will be complete) when I become dearer to you than even your own self." Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Now you are dearer to me than even my own self." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Now, O Umar! (your faith has reached perfection)."

It is narrated from Mus'ab bin Abdullah that al-Munkadir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) lived in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and heard hadiths from him (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from al-Zubayr bin Bakkar that al-Munkadir bin Abdullah came to the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), and complained to her of his need and poverty. She said: "The first thing (wealth) that comes to me, I will send to you." So when ten thousand dirhams came to her, she sent them to him. With those dirhams he bought a slave-girl, from whom his sons Muhammad, Abu Bakr and Umar were born. All of them became well known for their asceticism and piety, and hadiths were narrated from them.

Muhammad bin al-Munkadir narrates from his father that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever performs tawaf of seven circuits around the House (the Ka'bah) and does not engage in any idle or indecent talk during it, it is equal to freeing a slave."