1256 – Abū Bakr Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad al-Wāsitī also narrated to us; he said: ⦗1798⦘ Abd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to us; he said: My father narrated to me; he said: Yahyā ibn Abī Bukayr narrated to us; he said: Zāida narrated to us, from Āsim, from Zirr, from Abd Allāh—that is, Ibn Masūd—who said: “The first to proclaim their Islam publicly were seven: the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—Abū Bakr, Ammār, his mother Sumayya, Suhayb, al-Miqdād, and Bilāl—may Allah be pleased with them.”