Ibn Umar was sent with a detachment of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The people wheeled round in flight. He said: I was one of those who wheeled round in flight. When we stopped, we said (i.e. thought): How should we do? We have run away from the battlefield and deserve Allah's wrath. Then we said (thought): Let us enter Medina, stay there, and go there while no one sees us. So we entered (Medina) and thought: If we present ourselves before the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and if there is a change of repentance for us, we shall stay; if there is something else, we shall go away. So we sat down (waiting) for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) before the dawn prayer. When he came out, we stood up to him and said: We are the ones who have fled. He turned to us and said: No, you are the ones who return to fight after wheeling away. We then approached and kissed his hand, and he said; I am the main body of the Muslims.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 15, Hadith 171
I went to Sham and was offering a two-rak`at prayer; I said, "O Allah! Bless me with a (pious)
companion." Then I saw an old man coming towards me, and when he came near I said, (to myself),
"I hope Allah has given me my request." The man asked (me), "Where are you from?" I replied, "I am
from the people of Kufa." He said, "Weren't there amongst you the Carrier of the (Prophet's) shoes,
Siwak and the ablution water container? Weren't there amongst you the man who was given Allah's
Refuge from the Satan? And weren't there amongst you the man who used to keep the (Prophet's)
secrets which nobody else knew? How did Ibn Um `Abd (i.e. `Abdullah bin Mas`ud) use to recite
Surat-al-lail (the Night:92)?" I recited:--
"By the Night as it envelops By the Day as it appears in brightness. And by male and female." (92.1-
3) On that, Abu Darda said, "By Allah, the Prophet (ﷺ) made me read the Verse in this way after listening
to him, but these people (of Sham) tried their best to let me say something different."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 62, Hadith 106
We were in the company of Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari and there were friendly relations between us and
this tribe of Jarm. Abu Musa was presented with a dish containing chicken. Among the people there
was sitting a red-faced man who did not come near the food. Abu Musa said (to him), "Come on (and
eat), for I have seen Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) eating of it (i.e. chicken)." He said, "I have seen it eating
something (dirty) and since then I have disliked it, and have taken an oath that I shall not eat it ' Abu
Musa said, "Come on, I will tell you (or narrate to you). Once I went to Allah s Apostle with a group
of Al-Ash`ariyin, and met him while he was angry, distributing some camels of rak`at. We asked for
mounts but he took an oath that he would not give us any mounts, and added, 'I have nothing to mount
you on' In the meantime some camels of booty were brought to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and he asked twice,
'Where are Al-Ash`ariyin?" So he gave us five white camels with big humps. We stayed for a short
while (after we had covered a little distance), and then I said to my companions, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has
forgotten his oath. By Allah, if we do not remind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) of his oath, we will never be
successful." So we returned to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! We asked you for mounts,
but you took an oath that you would not give us any mounts; we think that you have forgotten your
oath.' He said, 'It is Allah Who has given you mounts. By Allah, and Allah willing, if I take an oath
and later find something else better than that. then I do what is better and expiate my oath.' "
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 72, Hadith 44