Musʿab al-Zubayrī said: “Suhayb escaped from the Byzantines with some money, settled in Mecca, and entered into an alliance with Ibn Judʿān; the Byzantines had originally taken him captive at Nineveh.

ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Suhayb, from ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Thawbān, from Suhayb, narrated:
“I reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at Qubāʾ. On the road my eyes had become inflamed and I was hungry. In front of him lay some fresh dates, so I began eating. ʿUmar said, ‘Messenger of Allah, do you not see Suhayb eating dates while he is suffering from ophthalmia?’ The Prophet ﷺ repeated the remark to me. I replied, ‘I am only eating with the sound side of my eye,’ and he smiled (1).

ʿUrwah, Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, and others included Suhayb among those who fought at Badr.

Abū Zurʿah reported: Yūsuf ibn ʿAdī told us, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd ibn Ṣayfī related from his father, from his grandfather, from his great-grandfather, from Suhayb, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him love Suhayb with the love a mother has for her child (2).”

Ḥammād ibn Salamah transmitted, from Thābit, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah, from ʿĀʾidh ibn ʿAmr, that