Ibn ʿAjlān relates, through ʿUthmān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Rāfiʿ, who said:
“I saw Abū Saʿīd trimming his moustache so closely that it looked shaved, just like the work of a barber.” ⦗1⦘

Baqī ibn Makhlad, in his Major Musnad, transmitted one thousand one hundred and seventy hadiths from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, counting the repetitions.

Al-Wāqidī and others said that he died in the year 74 AH.

Ibn al-Madīnī ⦗2⦘—for all his stature—put forward two different dates for Abū Saʿīd’s death, but in both he stood alone and was mistaken.

Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī said: “I heard him say that he died in 63 AH.”

Al-Bukhārī reported that ʿAlī said: “He died one year after the event of al-Ḥarrah.”

Ishāq ibn Ṭāriq told us; Yūsuf ibn Khalīl told us; al-Labbān told us; al-Ḥaddād told us; Abū Nuʿaym told us; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr told us; Abū Ḥuṣayn told us; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd told us; Ḥammād ibn Zayd, from al-Muʿallā ibn Ziyād, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Bashīr, from Abū al-Ṣiddīq al-Nājī, from Abū Saʿīd, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ once came upon us when we were a group of poor Muslims. I do not think he recognised any of them, and some of them were even hiding from one another out of shame for their lack of clothing. ⦗3⦘

The Messenger of Allah gestured with his hand, moving it in a small circle, and we gathered around him in a ring. He asked, “What were you discussing?”

They answered, “This man recites the Quran to us and makes supplication for us.”

He said, “Then go back to what you were engaged in.”

He then said, “Praise be to Allah who has placed in my community those with whom I have been commanded to keep my soul patient.”

Then he said, “Let the poor believers receive the glad tidings of triumph on the Day…"