hadiths, while Muslim records fifteen.

He was an exemplary, God-fearing Imām.

Ibn Saʿd and Ibn ʿAsākir have supplied particularly polished accounts of his life.

Al-Wāqidī and others state that Abū Mūsā arrived in Mecca, entered into an alliance with Abū Uhayshah al-Umawī, embraced Islam there, and then emigrated to Abyssinia (1).

Abū Isḥāq al-Sabiʿī reports—through Abū Burdah, from his father—that:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered us to set out with Jaʿfar to the land of the Negus. Quraysh therefore sent ʿAmr and ʿUmārah ibn al-Walīd and gathered a gift for him.” (2)

Ibn ʿUqbah, Ibn Isḥāq, and Abū Maʿshar, however, do not list him among those who made the Abyssinian migration.

Qatādah transmits—from Saʿīd ibn Abī Burdah, from his father—that his father said to him:

“Had you seen us setting out with our Prophet ﷺ when rain poured down upon us, you would have caught from us the odor of sheep because of our woolen garments.” (3)

Humayd ibn Hilāl relates—from Abū Burdah—who said:

“My mother told me, ‘Your father left when he was dismissed from Basra, and he had with him nothing but six hundred dirhams—the allowance for his dependents.’” (4)