ʿĀʾishah related: “Among all the fathers of the Emigrants, not one embraced Islam except Abu Bakr.”

Al-Zuhrī said: “Abu Bakr was fair-skinned with a slight yellowish hue, slight of build, curly-haired, narrow-hipped; his waist-wrap could scarcely stay fast upon his hips.”

It is also reported that he travelled on trade journeys to Busra more than once, and that he expended his wealth upon the Prophet ﷺ and in the cause of Allah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “No wealth has ever benefited me as Abu Bakr’s wealth has benefited me.”

ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr stated: “On the day Abu Bakr accepted Islam he owned forty thousand dinars.”

ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ asked, “Messenger of Allah, which man is dearest to you?” He replied, “Abu Bakr.”

Abu Sufyān reported, on the authority of Jābir, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “No believer detests Abu Bakr and ʿUmar, and no hypocrite loves them.”

Al-Shaʿbī narrated, through al-Ḥārith from ʿAlī, that the Prophet ﷺ looked at Abu—