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Musnad Ahmad 835

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَخْبَرَنَا مَنْصُورُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ يَعْنِي الْغُدَانِيَّ الْأَشَلَّ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو جُحَيْفَةَ الَّذِي كَانَ عَلِيٌّ يُسَمِّيهِ وَهْبَ الْخَيْرِ

قَالَ لِي عَلِيٌّ: يَا أَبَا جُحَيْفَةَ، أَلَا أُخْبِرُكَ بِأَفْضَلِ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: بَلَى، قَالَ: وَلَمْ أَكُنْ أَرَى أَنَّ أَحَدًا أَفْضَلُ مِنْهُ، قَالَ: أَفْضَلُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَبَعْدَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عُمَرُ، وَبَعْدَهُمَا آخَرُ ثَالِثٌ، وَلَمْ يُسَمِّهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
  2. Manṣūr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman / al-Ghudānī al-Ashal
  3. al-Shaʿbī
  4. Abū Juḥayfah al--Adhī Kān ʿAlī Yusammīh And Hb al-Khayr

✧ 'Ali said to me: 'O Abu Juhayfa, shall I not inform you of the most virtuous of this ummah after its Prophet?' He said: I said: 'Yes.' He said: 'I did not think that anyone was more virtuous than him.' He said: 'The most virtuous of this ummah after its Prophet is Abu Bakr, and after Abu Bakr is 'Umar, and after them another third, but he did not name him.'

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