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Sahih al-Bukhari 3655

The merits of Abu Bakr ᴿᴬ

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ قَالَ

كُنَّا نُخَيِّرُ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ فِي زَمَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَنُخَيِّرُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ ثُمَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ثُمَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ ؓ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbdullāh
  2. Sulaymān
  3. Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
  4. Nāfiʿ
  5. Ibn ʿUmar

We used to compare the people as to who was better during the lifetime of Messenger of Allah ﷺ. We used to regard Abu Bakr as the best, then ʿUmar, and then ʿUthman.

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  1. One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AH
    نَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهور
    عن
  3. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 143 AH or 144 AH, also said 146 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 172 AH, or: 177 AH
    سُلَيْمَانُثقة
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 211 and 220 AH
    عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة
    حدثنا
  6. a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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