Reports on Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him)

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We were sitting with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) asked permission to come in. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Give him permission. Welcome to the person of pure nature."

Amr bin Shurahbil said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) is filled with faith through and through."

Abu Layla al-Kindi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Sayyiduna Khabbab (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Come near, for no one has more right to this seat than you except Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him)." Then Sayyiduna Khabbab (may Allah be pleased with him) showed the marks on his back of the torments of the polytheists.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The son of Sumayyah (may Allah be pleased with her), that is, Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him), whenever he was given a choice between two matters, he chose the more correct of them."

Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is the matter with those people concerning Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him)? Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) calls them to Paradise and they call him to Hell? And such is the habit and way of the wretched and the wicked."

Abu al-Bakhtari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked about Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him). He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: He was a pious believer. When you reminded him, he would remember. And faith had entered his ear and his eye. And he (may Allah be pleased with him) mentioned whatever part of his body Allah willed.

The people said to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): Tell us about the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). They said: Tell us about Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him). He said: He was a pious believer. If you reminded him, he would remember.

Huzayl (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Someone came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was told that a mountain had fallen on Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) and he had died from it. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) has not died."

Al-Qasim bin Mukhaymirah said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) is filled with faith through and through. He is among those upon whom Hell has been made forbidden."

Alqamah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Khalid bin al-Walid (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Some bitter words passed between me and Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him). So Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) went and began complaining about me to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). So I also came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while he was complaining about me. During the conversation the anger of Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) only kept increasing, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was silent. Then Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) began to weep and said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Do you (peace and blessings be upon him) not hear?" At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) raised his head toward me and said: "Whoever is hostile to Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him), Allah Almighty will be hostile to him; and whoever hates Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him), Allah Almighty will hate him." Sayyiduna Khalid bin al-Walid (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I went out, and nothing was more hateful to me than the displeasure of Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him). Then I met him, and he became pleased.

Al-Mas'udi (may Allah have mercy on him) said that al-Qasim bin Abd al-Rahman (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The builder of the first mosque in which prayer was offered was Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him).

Husayn (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Abu Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The verse of the Qur'an, "Except one who was forced while his heart was at peace with faith" [Al-Nahl: 106], was revealed concerning Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him).

Hani bin Hani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked permission from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) to come in, and he (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Welcome to the person of pure nature. I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) is filled with faith through and through.'"

Al-Hakam said concerning the verse "Except one who was forced while his heart was at peace with faith": It was revealed concerning Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Sayyiduna Usamah (may Allah be pleased with him) tripped on the threshold of the door and fell, and his face was injured. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Remove the harm from him," but I felt disgust at it. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) began sucking the blood and spitting it out, and he said: "If Usamah were a girl, I would dress her and adorn her with jewelry until I had made her sought after."