Musnad al-Bazzar 517
✧ Amr b. Hurayth on the authority of Ali
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ، قَالَ: نَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، قَالَ: نَا هَارُونُ بْنُ سَلْمَانَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ:
" خَيْرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا ﷺ أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَبَعْدَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عُمَرُ، وَلَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ أُسَمِّيَ الثَّالِثَ لَسَمَّيْتُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Kurayb
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- Hārūn b. Salmān
- ʿAmr b. Ḥurayth
- ʿAlī
✧ The best of this community after its Prophet ﷺ is Abu Bakr, and after Abu Bakr is Umar, and if I wished to name the third, I would name him.
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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.
in مسند البزار, p. 517
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبفي حكم العنعنة
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيٍّأحد العشرةعن
- Young Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Bukhārī, Ibn Ḥibbān and more than one said: died in the year 85 AH, also said: died in the year 98 AH, not established; died in the year 85; Khalīfah said: he died in 78 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ حُرَيْثٍصحابي صغيرعن
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)هَارُونُ بْنُ سَلْمَانَلا بأس بهنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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