Ibn Sīrīn said, “He performed the prayer better than anyone else, whether at home or on a journey.” (1)

Anas said, “Take it from me, for I took it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, from Allah—Exalted is He—and you will not find anyone more trustworthy than I.” (2)

Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān related from his father: “I heard Anas say, ‘No one remains who prayed toward the two qiblahs except me.’” (3)

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd (4) reported: ʿAffān narrated to us; a certain shaykh of ours, known by the kunya Abū Junāb, narrated to me; I heard al-Jarīrī (5) say: “Anas entered the state of iḥrām at Dhāt ʿIrq, and we did not hear him utter a single word other than the remembrance of Allah—Exalted is He—until he completed his rites. Then he said to me, ‘My nephew, this is how iḥrām should be observed.’”

Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf said: “Anas came in to us on a Friday while we were conversing in one of the houses of the Prophet’s ﷺ wives and said, ‘Hush!’ When the call to prayer was given he remarked, ‘I fear that I may have invalidated my Friday prayer simply by saying to you, “Hush.”’” (6)

Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā said: Bashār ibn Mūsā al-Khuffāf narrated to us; Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Thābit, who said: “I was with Anas when his stewardess (7) came and said, ‘Abū Ḥamzah, our land is parched.’ Anas rose, performed ablution, went out to the open country, prayed two rakʿahs, and then supplicated. I saw the clouds gather together and it began to rain until we imagined it had filled everything. When the rain subsided, Anas sent one of his household and said, ‘Go and see how far the rain reached.’ He looked and found that it had not gone beyond Anas’s land except a little.” (8)

Imām Aḥmad said: “Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh narrated to us; Ibn ʿAwn narrated to us, from Muḥammad, who said: Whenever Anas related a report from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and finished, he would add, ‘Or as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said.’”

Al-Anṣārī (9) narrated, on the authority of Ibn ʿAwn, from Muḥammad: “A certain governor sent Anas a share of the booty. Anas asked, ‘Has the khums been taken from it?’ When he was told, ‘No,’ he refused to accept it.”

Al-Naḍr ibn Shaddād reported from his father: “Anas fell ill, and someone asked him, ‘Shall we call a physician for you?’ He replied, ‘The Physician is the One who has made me ill.’” (10)