Musnad Ahmad 922

Translation

✧ Shall I not inform you of the best of this Ummah after its Prophet? Abu Bakr, and the best of it after Abu Bakr is Umar, then Allah places the good wherever He loves.

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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. 929

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
   ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib

   Truthful (ṣadūq), became confused (ikhtalaṭa)d. 133 AH, or 134 AH, or 136 AH, or 137 AH
   عَطَاءٍ - يَعْنِي : ابْنَ السَّائِبِ -صدوق اختلط
   عن
5. 5
   Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt).d. 179 AH, or 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.
   خَالِدٌثقة ثبت.
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   Wahb b. Baqiyyah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 239 AH
   وَهْبُ بْنُ بَقِيَّةَ الْوَاسِطِيُّثقة
   حدثني
7. 7
   ʿAbdullāh

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

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