Sahih Ibn Hibban 6856
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ رَجَاءٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْهُذَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
«لَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا خَلِيلًا لَاتَّخَذْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ خَلِيلًا وَلَكِنَّهُ أَخِي وَصَاحِبِي وَقَدِ اتَّخَذَ اللَّهُ صَاحِبَكُمْ خَلِيلًا»
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná
- Abū Khaythamah
- Ibn Mahdī
- Shuʿbah
- Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ
- ʿAbdullāh b. Abū al-Hudhayl
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ “If I were to take a close friend, I would have taken Abu Bakr as a close friend, but he is my brother and my companion, and Allah has taken your companion as a close friend.”
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