Musnad Ahmad 1040

Translation

✧ Shall I not inform you of the best of this nation after its Prophet ﷺ? Abu Bakr, then Umar.

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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. 1047

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
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيٍّأحد العشرة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd Khayr

   mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AH
   عَبْدِ خَيْرٍمخضرم ، ثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit al-Kāhilī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AH
   حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليس
   عن
5. 5
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   وَشُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقن
   عن
6. 6
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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