—Zayd ibn Thābit, the scribe of revelation—while Muʿāwiyah served as the scribe in the correspondence conducted between the Prophet ﷺ and the Arabs.

ʿAmr ibn Murrah, through ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith, through Zuhayr ibn al-Aqmar, through ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, said:
“Muʿāwiyah used to write for the Messenger of Allah (1) ﷺ.”

Abu ʿAwanah, from Abu Ḥamzah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, said:
“I was playing with the other boys when the Prophet ﷺ called me and said, ‘Bring Muʿāwiyah to me.’ He was one of those who wrote down the revelation.”

Aḥmad recorded it in his Musnad (2).

Al-Ḥākim added: “ʿAlī ibn Ḥamshād narrated to us; Hishām ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; Abu ʿAwanah narrated: So I went and summoned him. They said, ‘He is eating.’ I returned and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, he is eating.’ He replied, ‘Go and call him.’ I went a second time, and again they said, ‘He is eating.’ I returned and informed the Messenger of Allah. The third time he said, ‘May Allah never fill his belly.’ The narrator added: He was never satiated after that.”

Al-Tayālisī also transmitted it: Abu ʿAwanah and Hushaym narrated it, and it contains the wording, “May Allah never fill his belly” (3).

One of Muʿāwiyah’s admirers explained the phrase as follows: ‘May Allah never fill his belly’—that is, so he will not be among those who go hungry on the Day of Resurrection, for the Prophet ﷺ said: “Those who are the most satisfied in food during this world will be the hungriest on the Day of Resurrection” (4).