I have a personal request.”

He asked, “And what is it?”

She replied, “Your servant Anas.”

Thereupon he left out no good of this world or the next without invoking it for him, saying:

“O Allah, provide him with wealth and offspring, and bless him in what You grant him.”

Anas later said, “I am now the richest man among the Anṣār, and my daughter Umaynah has told me that, by the time al-Ḥajjāj arrived in Basra, I had already buried from my own descendants a hundred-and-twenty-odd persons.”

In another narration recorded by Muslim he added, “He prayed for me with three supplications; two of them I have witnessed, and I hope for the third in the Hereafter.”

Tirmidhī—grading the report ḥasan—relates from Abū Khaldah who said: I asked Abū al-ʿĀliyah, “Did Anas hear directly from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?” He replied, “He served him for ten years, and the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, prayed for him. He owned an orchard that produced fruit twice a year, and he was …”