Musnad Ahmad 1031

Translation

✧ Ali said when he had finished with the people of Basra: “The best of this community after its Prophet ﷺ is Abu Bakr, and after Abu Bakr is Umar. And we have brought about events in which Allah does whatever He wills.”

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  قد ثبت عنه رضي الله عنه أنه فضل أبا بكر على نفسه من طرق صحاح

  machine translationIt is established from him, may God be pleased with him, that he preferred Abū Bakr over himself through sound (ṣaḥīḥ) chains of transmission. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 1038

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3671

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
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   قال
3. 3
   ʿAbd Khayr

   mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AH
   عَبْدِ خَيْرٍمخضرم ، ثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Khālid b. ʿAlqamah

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 121 and 130 AH
   خَالِدِ بْنِ عَلْقَمَةَصدوق
   عن
5. 5
   Abū ʿAwānah

   trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AH
   أَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ghiyāth

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 238 AH or 239 AH 240 AH
   أَبُو بَحْرٍ عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ الْبَصْرِيُّصدوق
   حدثني
7. 7
   ʿAbdullāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة

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