‏الفضائل : Hadeeth No:5655 Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: I shall be pre-eminent arriongst the descendants of Adam on the Day of Resurrection and I will be the first intercessor and the first whose intercession will be accepted (by Allaah)....

‏الجهاد والسير‏ : Hadeeth No:4426 It has been narrated on the authority of Jundub b. Sufyan who said: A finger of the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) was wounded in one of the encounters He said: Thou art just a little finger which has bled, and what thou hast experienced is in the cause of Allaah....