Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 34528 — The virtue of the Ansar

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If the people were to travel through one valley and mountain pass, and you, O Ansar, were to travel through another valley and mountain pass, I would certainly travel through your valley and mountain pass. To me you are like the inner garment and the other people like the outer garment, and were it not that the emigration was an important matter, I would have been a man of the Ansar." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) raised both his hands, until I saw the whiteness of his armpits below his shoulders. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated: "O Allah, forgive the Ansar, forgive their children, and forgive the children of their children."