Sahih Ibn Hibban 7251

Translation

✧ During the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we used to rank them in excellence: Abu Bakr, then Umar, then Uthman, then we would remain silent.

Grades by grader

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3655Sahih al-Bukhari 3697

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   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. 2
   Dhakwān al-Sammān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq); his memory deteriorated at the end of his lifed. 138 AH, or: 140 AH, or: 141 AH, in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AH
   سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   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 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ الضَّرِيرُثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ibn Abī al-Sarī

   Truthful (ṣadūq) and knowledgeable, but with many errors.d. 238 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ بْنِ أَبِي السَّرِيِّصدوق عارف له أوهام كثيرة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah

   d. 310 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Ibn Ḥibbān

   d. 354 AH
   ابن حبان

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