(1) It is related that Abu Musa once visited Muʿāwiyah while he was encamped at al-Nukhaylah. Abu Musa was wearing a black turban and a black cloak and was carrying a black staff.

(2) Thābit reports from Anas: Whenever Abu Musa lay down to sleep he would put on a tubbān (a tight under-garment) for fear that his private parts might become exposed.

(3) Mansūr ibn al-Muʿtamir relates from Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī that Abu Musa said, “For my nostrils to be filled with the stench of a corpse is dearer to me than for them to be filled with the scent of a woman.”

(4) Ibn Abī ʿArūbah narrates from Qatādah, from Qazaʿah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the freedman of Umm Burthun: Abu Musa al-Ashʿarī and Ziyād once came in to ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with him. Noticing a gold ring on Ziyād’s hand, ʿUmar said, “So you have taken to wearing gold rings?” Abu Musa replied, “As for me, my ring is made of iron.” ʿUmar said, “That is even more repulsive—or more loathsome—than any man who wears a ring. Let him wear a ring of silver instead.”

(5) Ibn Buraydah said, “Abu Musa was snub-nosed, short, and lightly built—may Allah be pleased with him.”

In the Musnad of Baqī he is credited with 360 hadiths. In the Two Ṣaḥīḥs he appears in 49 hadiths, and al-Bukhārī alone records four