Reports on Usamah and his father (may Allah be pleased with them)

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: It is not fitting for anyone to hate Sayyiduna Usamah (may Allah be pleased with him) after what I heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever loves Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) should love Usamah as well."

Qays (may Allah have mercy on him) said: When the father of Sayyiduna Usamah bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed, he stood before the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and the tears of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) flowed. Then he came the next day and stood in the same place of his, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Am I to endure from you today what I endured from you yesterday?"

Urwah said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prepared an army to send in the direction of Mu'tah and appointed Sayyiduna Usamah bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) as its commander, although Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) were also in that army. The narrator said: It was as if some people expressed displeasure at the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) appointing Usamah as commander over the army. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up to deliver a sermon and said: "Some of you have expressed displeasure with me over appointing Usamah as commander. They also expressed displeasure before this at his father being made commander. By Allah, he was indeed worthy of command, and he too was among the people most beloved to me, and after him his son is also the most beloved of people to me. I hope that he will be one of the righteous among you, so treat him well."

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."

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) never sent Sayyiduna Zayd bin Harithah (may Allah be pleased with him) with an army without making him its commander. Had he lived after him (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) would have made him successor.

Salim bin Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: We used to call him only by the name Zayd bin Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), until the verse of the Qur'an was revealed: "Call them by the names of their fathers; that is more just in the sight of Allah." [Al-Ahzab: 5]

Sayyiduna al-Bara bin Azib (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him): "As for you, O Zayd, you are our brother and our friend."

The preceding hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is also reported from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him).