27 – “We set out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on pilgrimage … look at this pilgrim in iḥrām and what he is doing!”
Reported by Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Jarīr on the authority of Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr.
Good chain: Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd (1818).
Later ruled weak: al-Silsila al-Ḍaʿīfa (4039).

28 – “The best number of companions is four … and twelve thousand will never be overcome because they are too few.”
Reported by Aḥmad, al-Tirmidhī, and Ibn Ḥibbān on the authority of Ibn ʿAmr.
Authentic: al-Silsila al-Ṣaḥīḥa (986).
Later ruled weak: Ḍaʿīf al-Targhīb wa’l-Tarhīb (1814).