Sunan Ibn Majah · Hadith 169

حدثنا عبد الرحمن بن إبراهيم، حدثنا ابن أبي فديك، عن عبد المهيمن بن عباس بن سهل بن سعد، عن أبيه، عن جده، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال ‏"‏ الأنصار شعار والناس دثار ولو أن الناس استقبلوا واديا - أو شعبا - واستقبلت الأنصار واديا لسلكت وادي الأنصار ولولا الهجرة لكنت امرأ من الأنصار ‏"‏ ‏.‏

It was narrated from 'Abdul-Muhaimin bin 'Abbas bin Sahl bin Sa'd from his father, from his grandfather, that: The Messenger of Allah said: "The Ansar are an inner garment and the people are an outer garment. If the people were to head towards one valley or a narrow mountain pass and the Ansar towards another, I would travel to the valley of the Ansar, and were it not for the Hijrah, I would have been a man from among the Ansar."

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).