On that occasion ʿAbbās ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abī Lahab recited:

“Through my uncle may God water the Ḥijāz and its folk
the day ʿUmar sought rain by his silvery locks.
He came with al-ʿAbbās in a season of drought, imploring Him;
he had barely halted before the clouds poured down.
From us is the Messenger of God—his legacy abides among us;
what higher claim to glory could any boaster make?”

Abū Maʿshar related—from Zayd ibn Aslam, from his father, and from ʿUmar the client of Ghafrah, and from Muḥammad ibn Nufayʿ—that:
When ʿUmar became caliph and the conquests opened before him, a large sum of wealth reached him. He favored the Emigrants and the Helpers: to each man who had fought at Badr he allotted five thousand, five thousand; to anyone who had not been at Badr but possessed prior merit, four thousand, four thousand; and he allotted to al-ʿAbbās twelve thousand (1).

Sufyān ibn Ḥabīb reported: Shuʿbah told us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Abū Ṣāliḥ Dhakwān, from Ṣuhayb, the freedman of al-ʿAbbās, who said:
“I saw ʿAlī kissing the hand of al-ʿAbbās and his foot, saying, ‘O uncle, be pleased with me.’” (2)

Its chain is sound, though I do not know who Ṣuhayb is.

ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated—from Thawr, from Makḥūl, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib—that he