It is narrated from Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Numayr that Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away in the year 52 AH, when he was sixty-three years old.

It is narrated from Yahya bin Ma'in that the name of Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) is Abdullah bin Qays.

It is narrated from Sa'id bin Abd al-Aziz al-Tanukhi that Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated for the eldest and the youngest of the people of the ship. Sayyiduna Abu Amir al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I am the eldest of the people of the ship, and my son is the youngest. Sa'id says: Among them were Abu Amir, Abu Malik, Abu Musa and Ka'b bin Asim (may Allah be pleased with them). I think they set out from al-Abwa'.

It is narrated from Imam al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: Legal verdicts and judgeship rested upon six Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), three in Madinah and three in Kufah. In Madinah were Sayyiduna Umar, Ubayy bin Ka'b and Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with them), and in Kufah were Sayyiduna Ali, Abdullah bin Mas'ud and Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with them). The narrator says: I asked al-Sha'bi: Was Abu Musa also counted among them? He said: He was one of the jurists.

It is narrated from Masruq that he said: The knowledge of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) culminated in these few people: Umar bin al-Khattab, Ali bin Abi Talib, Abdullah bin Mas'ud, Ubayy bin Ka'b, Mu'adh bin Jabal, Zayd bin Thabit, Abu al-Darda' and Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with them). Masruq said: The judges are four: Umar, Ali, Zayd bin Thabit and Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with them).

It is narrated from Shaqiq bin Salamah that Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed us in a sermon and said: "By Allah! If you obey Allah first, and heed Abdullah bin Qays (that is, me) second, I will lead you along the straight path."

It is narrated from Imam al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: No rider (personality) better for the people of Basrah than Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) ever came to it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Indeed, Ali was the first person to accept Islam with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. The purpose of mentioning it here is to show that Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) was free of any kind of disparagement of the status of Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and that Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrated from him.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that in Basrah a black man who was with him narrated some hadiths of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) through Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him). So Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) wrote to him asking about them. Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to him in reply: "You are indeed the best man of your time (in knowledge). I have not narrated anything about these matters from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), except that I was with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) wanted to urinate, so he went to a spot of soft earth at the foot of a wall and said: 'Among the Children of Israel, when urine got on one of them, he would cut it off with scissors. So when any of you intends to urinate, let him look for a (soft) spot for his urine.'" This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Abu Wa'il: I was present with Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, Ammar bin Yasir and Abu Mas'ud al-Badri (may Allah be pleased with them). I heard Abu Musa and Abu Mas'ud say to Ammar: "Since you accepted Islam, we have not found any matter of yours more disliked by us than your haste in this matter (of the tribulation)." Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "And since you both accepted Islam, I have not disliked anything of yours more than this slowness and delay of yours." Then they all went out together to the mosque.