Al-ʿAbbās said, “The best of this community is the Prophet’s heir and his uncle.” (1)

Yahyā ibn Abī Ṭālib heard this directly from him, yet the report itself is considered objectionable.

Al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān al-Ḥizāmī related: “When al-ʿAbbās had some need of his boys while they were in al-Ghābah, he would climb Salʿ in the last part of the night, call out to them, and they would hear him.” Al-Ghābah is roughly nine miles away.

I (the author) say: He was perfectly proportioned and had a tremendously powerful voice; he is the one whom the Prophet ﷺ instructed on the Day of Ḥunayn to cry out, ya aṣḥāba al-shajara (O Companions of the Tree). (2)

Judge Abū Muḥammad ibn Zabr narrated to us: Ismāʿīl the judge informed us, Naṣr ibn ʿAlī informed us, and al-Aṣmaʿī said: “Al-ʿAbbās had a shepherd grazing his flock at a distance of three miles; whenever he wanted anything from him, he would shout, and the shepherd would hear what he required.”

Layth reported: Mujāhid told me, from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said, “When he lay dying, al-ʿAbbās emancipated seventy slaves.” (3)

ʿAlī ibn Zayd narrated—from al-Ḥasan—who said: “A surplus remained in the public treasury, so al-ʿAbbās said to ʿUmar and to the people, ‘What do you think—if Moses’ uncle were among you, would you not honor him?’”