al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5145

Translation

✧ Abdullah used to say: My closest friends among the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ were three: Abu Bakr, Umar, and Abu Ubaidah.

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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
   في حكم السماع
2. 2
   ʿUbaydah

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   عُبَيْدَةَمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Ḥudhayfah

   truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), he used to make transcription errors (taṣḥīf)d. 220 AH, or: 221 AH, or: 226 AH
   أَبُو حُذَيْفَةَصدوق سيئ الحفظ ، وكان يصحف
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Ghālib

   d. 283 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ غَالِبٍ
   أنا
7. 7
   Abū Bakr b. Isḥāq

   d. 342 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ
   أخبرنا
8. 8
   al-Ḥākim

   d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
   الحاكم

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