2727 – Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj informed us; he said: al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Rabīʿ informed us; he said: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; he said: al-Ḥārith ibn Abī al-Zubayr, the freedman of the Nawfal clan, narrated to us; he said: Ismāʿīl ibn Qays ibn Saʿd related to me, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī, who said:

al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib said to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), “May my father and mother be ransomed for you, O Messenger of Allah. Grant me permission to go to Mecca so that I may emigrate to you and be counted among the Muhājirūn (the Emigrants).”

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) replied, “Stay where you are, dear uncle, for you are the seal of the Emigrants just as I am the seal of the Prophets.”