The virtue of al-Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him)

Abu Bakr bin Abi Shaybah narrates: Sayyiduna al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him): his kunyah is Abu Amr.
Al-Tabarani recorded it.

Muhammad bin Ishaq narrates: He is Sayyiduna al-Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him) bin Amr bin Tha'labah bin Rabi'ah bin Thumamah bin Matrud bin Amr bin Sa'd bin Zuhayr bin Thawr bin Tha'labah bin Malik bin Hazl bin Qabis bin Ruwaym bin al-Qayn bin al-Hun bin Bahz bin Amr bin al-Haf bin Quda'ah. He was attributed to al-Aswad bin Abd Yaghuth bin Wahb bin Abd Manaf bin Zuhrah because he (al-Aswad) had adopted him as a son and made him his ally. He was a man with a large belly and a wheat-coloured complexion, and he used to dye his beard yellow. He had a raised, long nose. He died in Madinah at the age of seventy, and Sayyiduna Uthman al-Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) led his funeral prayer.

Al-Tabarani says: He is Sayyiduna al-Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him) bin al-Aswad bin Amr, a participant of Badr. His kunyah is Abu Ma'bad, and according to one view Abu Amr. He is an ally of Banu Zuhrah. There is disagreement about his lineage. He was one of the early emigrants, and he has the honour of having taken part in the Battle of Badr.

Hammam bin al-Harith narrates: I saw Sayyiduna al-Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him); he was a heavily built man.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Al-Zuhri narrates: Sayyiduna al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him) belonged to Kindah.
Al-Tabarani recorded it as a "mursal" narration, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sufyan bin Sahbanah al-Mahri narrates: In the Era of Ignorance (Jahiliyyah) I was a companion of Sayyiduna al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him). He belonged to the tribe of Bahz. There he killed someone, fled to Kindah and made an alliance with them. Then he killed someone there too, fled to Makkah, and here he made an alliance with al-Aswad bin Abd Yaghuth.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain up to Sufyan is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Paradise longs for four people: Ali bin Abi Talib, Ammar bin Yasir, Salman al-Farisi and al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad."
(Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Al-Tirmidhi recorded this narration, but he did not mention Sayyiduna al-Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him) in it. Al-Tabarani recorded it; there is disagreement about using the narrators Salamah bin al-Fadl and Imran bin Wahb as evidence, and the remaining narrators of this narration are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: On the day of Hudaybiyah the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Leave me (that is, let me do it)." Then he took the sacrificial animal, went and sacrificed it (or as the narrators described it). Sayyiduna al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him) said: No! By Allah! We will not be like the group of the Children of Israel who said to Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him): You and your Lord go and both of you fight; we are sitting right here. (Sayyiduna al-Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Rather, we will say:) You and your Lord go and fight; we will take part in the fighting along with you both. (The narrator says:) Then he sacrificed the sacrificial animal at Hudaybiyah. Qatadah narrates: At that time they had seventy camels with them.
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Yahya bin Bukayr narrates: Sayyiduna al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him) died at al-Jurf, and people carried his body on their shoulders to Madinah. This was in 33 AH. Sayyiduna Uthman al-Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) led his funeral prayer. The kunyah of Sayyiduna al-Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him) was Abu Ma'bad, and at the time of his death he was about 70 years old.
Al-Tabarani recorded it.