Silsilah as-Sahihah 3329 — Virtues of the Ansar

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “The Ansar are the inner garment (i.e., special people) and other people are the outer garment (i.e., general people). If the general people walk in one valley and the Ansar walk in another valley, I would walk in the valley of the Ansar. If there had been no migration, I would have been an Ansari myself.”