(One night) I stayed overnight in the house of my aunt Maimuna, and said to myself, "I will watch the
prayer of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) " My aunt placed a cushion for Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and he slept on it in its
length-wise direction and (woke-up) rubbing the traces of sleep off his face and then he recited the last
ten Verses of Surat-al-`Imran till he finished it. Then he went to a hanging water skin and took it,
performed the ablution and then stood up to offer the prayer. I got up and did the same as he had done,
and stood beside him. He put his hand on my head and held me by the ear and twisted it. He offered
two rak`at, then two rak`at, then two rak`at, then two rak`at, then two rak`at, then two rak`at, and
finally the witr (i.e. one rak`a) prayer.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 92
"From 'Ubaid bin As-Sabbaq, that Zaid bin Thabit narrated to him, he said: 'Abu Bakr As-Siddiq sent for me - (regarding) those killed at Al-Yamamah - and 'Umar bin Al-Khattab was with him. He (Abu Bakr) said: "'Umar came to me and said: The fighting inflicted many casualties among the reciters of the Quran on the Day of Al-Yamamah, and I fear that there will be more casualties among the reciters in other parts of the land, such that much of the Quran may be lost. In my view, you should order that the Quran be collected.'" Abu Bakr said to 'Umar: "How can I do something which was not done my the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)?" 'Umar said: 'By Allah! It is something good.' 'Umar continued trying to convince me until Allah opened up my chest to that which He had opened the chest of 'Umar, and I saw it as he saw it." Zaid said: 'Abu Bakr said: "You are a young wise man, and we have no suspicions of you. You used to write down the Revelation for the Messenger of Allah as the Quran was revealed." He (Zaid) said: 'By Allah! If they had ordered to move one of the mountains it would have been lighter on me than that.' He said: 'I said: "How will you do something which was not done by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)?" Abu Bakr said: "By Allah! It is something good." Abu Bakr and 'Umar continued trying to convince me, until Allah opened up my chest for that, just as He had opened their chests, the chest of Abu Bakr and the chest of 'Umar. So I began searching for Quranic material from parchments, leaf stalks of date-palms and Al-Likhaf - meaning stones - and the chests of men. I found the end of Surah Bara'ah with Khuzaimah bin Thabit: Verily, there has come to you a Messenger from among yourselves. It grieves him that you should receive any injury or difficulty. He is eager for you; for the believers (he is) full of pity, kind, and merciful. But if they turn away, say: "Allah is sufficient for me. There is no god but He, in Him I put my trust, and He is the Lord of the Mighty Throne (9:128 & 129).'"
Jami` at-Tirmidhi Book 47, Hadith 155
We were one day in the company of 'Umar that he said: Who amongst you has preserved in his mind most perfectly the hadith of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in regard to the turmoil as he told about it? I said: It is I. Thereupon he said: You are bold (enough to make this claim). And he further said: How? I said: I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: There would (first) be turmoil for a person in regard to his family, his property, his own self, his children, his neighbours (and the sins committed in their connection) would be expiated by fasting, prayer, charity, enjoining good and prohibiting evil. Thereupon 'Umar said: I do not mean (that turmoil on a small scale) but that one which would emerge like the mounting waves of the ocean. I said: Commander of the Faithful, you have nothing to do with it, for the door is closed between you and that. He said: Would that door be broken or opened? I said: No, it would be broken. Thereupon he said: Then it would not be closed despite best efforts. We said to Hudhaifa: Did Umar know the door? Thereupon he said: Yes, he knew it (for certain) just as one knows that night precedes the next day. And I narrated to him something in which there was nothing fabricated. Shaqiq (one of the narrators) said: We dared not ask Hudhaifa about that door. So we requested Masruq to ask him. So he asked him and he said: (By that door, he meant) 'Umar.
Sahih Muslim Book 54, Hadith 34
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az-Zubayr that
A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "Abu Bakr as-Siddiq gave me palm trees whose produce was
twenty awsuq from his property at al-Ghaba. When he was dying, he
said, 'By Allah, little daughter, there is no one I would prefer to be
wealthy after I die than you. There is no one it is more difficult for
me to see poor after I die than you. I gave you palm-trees whose
produce is twenty awsuq. Had you cut them and taken possession of
them, they would have been yours, but today they are the property of
the heirs, and they are your two brothers and your two sisters, so
divide it according to the Book of Allah.' A'isha continued, "I said,
'My father! By Allah, even if it had been more, I would have left it.
There is only Asma. Who is my other sister?" Abu Bakr replied, 'What
is in the womb of Kharija? (Kharija was the wife of Abu Bakr's
'brother' from the Ansar.) I think that it is going to be a girl.' "
Muwatta Malik Book 36, Hadith 55