1. Rasulullah (SAW) said:

"You do not have (complete) Imaan until I am more beloved to you than your father, children and the rest of Mankind." (Mishkaat). 

 

2. Rasulullah (SAW) said:

“He who revives my sunnah (makes effort to bring my sunnah alive in mankind) certainly loves me and he who loves me will be with me in Jannah.” (Targheeb)

 

 
3. Rasulullah (SAW) said:

“Verily the closest person to me on the Day of Qiyamah is one who sent the most Durood upon me.” (Tirmizi) 

 

Hassan bin Thabit (R.A) says:

 “More beautiful than you has my eyes never seen
  More handsome than you no mother has ever conceived
  You have been created free from all blemishes, created as
  though you have been created as you wished. (Shamail Tirmizi) 

 

Commentary:

Love for Rasulullah (SAW) is an essential component of Imaan. No believer can claim to have true and perfect Imaan unless he loves Allah Ta'ala and Rasulullah (SAW) more than anything else. Today we strongly fulminate and claim to have great love for  Rasulullah (SAW). However, this claim has to be supported by a proof. Certain proof of this claim is close emulation of the lifestyle shown to us by Rasulullah (SAW). This was a quality which was deeply entrenched in the lives of the Sahaaba (R.A.). It was thus that the Quraan Shareef address them most glowingly as, Radiallahu anhum waradu anhu. (Allah Ta'ala was pleased with them and they were pleased with him.)