Sunan Abi Dawud 4628

Translation

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was alive, we used to say: The most excellent member of the community of the Prophet ﷺ after himself is Abu Bakr, then ‘Umar, then 'Uthman.

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What scholars said about it

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• ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī

  الحديث سكت عنه المنذري

  machine translationAl-Mundhirī remained silent about this hadith. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4614

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3655Sahih al-Bukhari 3697al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8710Musnad al-Bazzar 5871Musnad Abi Ya'la 5603Musnad Abi Ya'la 5605

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   إن
2. 2
   Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   He was reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid) and virtuous (fāḍil); he resembled his father in conduct (hady) and demeanor (samt)d. 105 AH or 106 AH or 107 AH or 108 AH, and the correct one is the first
   سَالِمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِكان ثبتا عابدا فاضلا ، كان يشبه بأبيه في الهدي والسمت
   قال
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يُونُسُثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAnbasah

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 198 AH, or: 197 AH
   عَنْبَسَةُصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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