Qutaybah reported: al-Layth—and another transmitter—narrated to us from ʿAyyāsh ibn ʿAbbās, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥubulī, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr say:
“To be the tenth of ten poor men on the Day of Resurrection is dearer to me than to be the tenth of ten wealthy men, for those who possess abundance will be the fewest on the Day of Resurrection—except for the one who does like this and like that,” meaning: who gives charity to the right and to the left. (1)
Hushaym narrated from Mughīrah and Ḥuṣayn, from Mujāhid, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said:
“My father married me to a woman of Quraysh. When she was brought in to me, I paid her no attention because I was wholly absorbed in worship. My father went to his daughter-in-law and asked, ‘How have you found your husband?’ She replied, ‘An excellent man—yet he has not lifted a curtain for me, nor has he approached my bed.’
“He then came to me, rebuked me sharply, and said, ‘I married you to a woman of noble lineage, yet you have caused her distress and behaved as you have!’
“He left and complained about me to the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet summoned me, and when I came he asked, ‘Do you fast by day and stand in prayer by night?’ I answered, ‘Yes.’
“He said, ‘But I fast and I break my fast; I pray and I sleep; and I have relations with women. Whoever turns away from my sunnah is not of me.’ (2)
The narrator adds: ʿAbd Allāh inherited from his father qanaṭīr muqantara—vast hoards—of Egyptian gold, and so he was counted among the “kings” of the Companions.