Noble Traits & High Status
There is also a narration of Tirmidhi in which Hazrat Ali bin Abi Talib (ra) narrates, “The Holy Prophet (sa) said, ‘Every prophet has been granted seven noble companions.’ The narrator states that perhaps the word used was ‘guardians’ instead of ‘companions’. However, the Holy Prophet (sa) stated, ‘I have been granted 14 such individuals’. So we asked who these individuals were and the Holy Prophet (sa) stated that it was me and my two sons, [Hassan (ra) and Hussain (ra)], Jafar (ra), Hamza (ra), Abu Bakr (ra), Umar (ra), Mus‘ab (ra) bin Umair, Bilal (ra), Salman (ra), Miqdad (ra), Abu Dhar (ra), Ammar (ra) and Abdullah bin Mas‘ud (ra).”
(Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Abwab Manaqib, Hadith 3785)
Hazrat Aamir bin Rabi‘ah (ra) relates that his father would often mention, “From the time Hazrat Mus‘ab (ra) bin Umair accepted Islam to the Battle of Uhud, he remained my close friend and companion. He was alongside us in both migrations to Abyssinia. He was my companion during the migration. I have never seen someone as well-mannered as him, nor did he engage in a dispute with anyone.”
(al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, p. 87, Mus‘ab (ra) bin Umair, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990)