Musnad Ahmad 4182

Translation

✧ If I were to take an intimate friend, I would have taken Abu Bakr as an intimate friend, but he is my brother and my companion. And God, Mighty and Majestic, has taken your companion as an intimate friend.

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Sahih al-Bukhari 467

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   سمعت
2. 2
   ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Naḍlah al-Jushamī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf
   أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقة
   يحدث عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Abī al-Hudhayl

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of Khālid al-Qasrī
   عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ أَبِي الْهُذَيْلِثقة
   سمعت
4. 4
   Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ al-Zubaydī

   Trustworthy (thiqah); al-Azdī spoke against him without proofd. between 111 and 120 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ رَجَاءٍثقة ، تكلم فيه الأزدي بلا حجة
   عن
5. 5
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   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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