“Your body has a right over you, your Lord has a right over you, and your family has a right over you. Fast and break your fast, pray, visit your family, and give each claimant his due.”

When the first light of dawn appeared he said, “Now, if you wish, rise.” The two of them got up, performed ablution, prayed, and then went out to the congregational prayer. Abu al-Dardaʾ drew near to tell the Messenger of Allah what Salman had instructed him. He said, “O Abu al-Dardaʾ, your body has a right over you—just as Salman has told you.” (1)

Al-Bābluttī reported: al-Awzāʿī told us, from Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah, who said:
Abu al-Dardaʾ remarked, “If I were to forget a single verse and could find no one to remind me of it except a man in Bark al-Ghamād, I would travel to him.” (2)

Al-Aʿmash transmitted from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Abu al-Dardaʾ, who said:
“Ask me, for by Allah, if you lose me you will indeed have lost a great man of the community of Muhammad ﷺ.” (3)

Rabiʿah al-Qaṣīr narrated from Abū Idrīs, from Yazīd ibn ʿAmīrah, who said:
When Muʿādh was on his death-bed they said, “Give us your counsel.” He replied, “Knowledge and faith remain where they have always been; whoever seeks them will find them”—he said it three times—“so seek knowledge from four: from ʿUwaymir Abu…"