ʿAffān reported: al-Aswad ibn Shaybān narrated to us; Abū Nawfal ibn Abī ʿAqrab narrated to us; he said:

When ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ lay ill and was overcome with anxiety, someone said to him, “Was not the Messenger of Allah ﷺ close to you and did he not appoint you to office?!”

He replied, “By Allah, I do not know what that truly meant—whether it was out of love or whether he was simply winning my heart. Yet I can testify about two men that he died while loving them: Ibn Umm ʿAbd and Ibn Sumayya.” (1)

Abū Nuʿaym reported: Fitr ibn Khalīfah narrated to us, from Kathīr al-Nawwāʾ;

I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mulayl (2) say:

I heard ʿAlī say:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “No prophet was ever sent without being granted seven noble, intimate companions and ministers. I, however, have been granted fourteen: Ḥamzah, Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Jaʿfar, Ḥasan, Ḥusayn, Ibn Masʿūd, Abū Dharr, al-Miqdād, Ḥudhayfah, ʿAmmār, and Salmān.” (3)

This was also related by ʿAlī ibn Hāshim ibn al-Barīd from Kathīr, but he halted the report at ʿAlī, and that version is the more likely.

I was informed by al-Khushūʿī and others that Murshid ibn Yaḥyā informed them; he said:

Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ṭaffāl informed us; Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Duhlī informed us; Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; Wakīʿ narrated to us, from his father and from Isrāʾīl, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbaydah, who said:

ʿAbd Allāh said: “I reached Abū Jahl while he was lying mortally wounded, and he was…”