Musnad Abi Ya'la 236

Translation

✧ Some people say: If only you would appoint a successor? I find no one more entitled to this matter than these individuals with whom the Prophet ﷺ died while pleased with them; whichever of them they appoint as successor, he is the caliph after me.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3700Sahih Ibn Hibban 6917Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38215al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16676Musnad Abi Ya'la 204

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   قال
2. 2
   Sālim b. Abī al-Jaʿd al-Ghaṭafānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) frequentlyd. 99 AH, Muṭayyan said: 100 AH, also said: 101 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 97 AH or 98 AH, and Ibn Ḥibbān said likewise in al-Thiqāt
   سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِثقة وكان يرسل كثيرا
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥuṣayn

   trustworthy (thiqah), his memory changed at the endd. 136 AH, or 139 AH
   حُصَيْنٍثقة ، تغير حفظه في الآخر
   عن
4. 4
   Jarīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
   جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Isḥāq b. Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy (thiqah), his hearing from Jarīr alone was criticizedd. 225 AH, or 230 AH
   إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الطَّالْقَانِيُّثقة ، تكلم في سماعه من جرير وحده
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أبو يعلى الموصلي

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