Reports on Sad bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him)

Ayyub (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard Aishah bint Sa'd say: "My father, by Allah! The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined his parents for him on the day of Uhud."

Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I never heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) offer his parents as ransom for anyone except Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him). I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say on the day of the Battle of Uhud: "O Sa'd, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you. Shoot your arrows."

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) say that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined his parents for him on the day of the Battle of Uhud.

Qays (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) say: "I am the first man among the Arabs to shoot an arrow in the path of Allah at the time of fighting."

Abu Balj (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard Mus'ab bin Sa'd (may Allah have mercy on him) say that Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) made a contract of manumission with a slave of his, and he demanded some money from that slave. The slave said: "I have nothing to give you." And he had gone to some dinars and stitched them into his sandals. So Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) invoked Allah against him, and both his sandals were stolen.

Mus'ab bin Sa'd (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) heard a man speaking ill of Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), so he (may Allah be pleased with him) invoked Allah against him. Then a Khurasani she-camel trampled him and killed him.

Qays (may Allah have mercy on him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Beware of the imprecations of Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him)."

Sayyiduna Sa'id bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) is in Paradise."

Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) used to narrate: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed awake one night while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was at my side. I asked: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), what is the matter with you?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If only a righteous man of my Ummah would guard me tonight." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: While we were like this, I heard the sound of weapons. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Who is this?" A voice came: "I am Sa'd bin Malik." He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Why have you come?" He said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), I have come to guard you." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Then I heard the snoring of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in his sleep.

Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: On the day of the Battle of Uhud I saw two men on the right and on the left of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), dressed in white clothes. I had never seen them before and never saw them afterwards, meaning Jibril (peace be upon him) and Mika'il (peace be upon him).

Hashim bin Hashim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) was the fiercest attacker among the Muslims on the day of the Battle of Uhud."

Abd al-Rahman bin Utbah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that al-Qasim bin Abd al-Rahman said: "The first person to shoot an arrow in the path of Allah is Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him)."