Sunan Ibn Majah 106

Translation

"I heard 'Ali say: 'The best of people after the Messenger of Allah is Abu Bakr, and the best of people after Abu Bakr is 'Umar.'"

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What scholars said about it

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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. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 112

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3671Musnad Ahmad 1060Musnad Ahmad 878Musnad Ahmad 909al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3462al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4778

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   سمعت
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Salimah

   truthful (ṣadūq), his memory changed
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ سَلِمَةَصدوق ، تغير حفظه
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Murrah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), devout; he did not practice concealment (tadlīs), and he was accused of Irjāʾd. 118 AH, also said: before it
   عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة عابد كان لا يدلس ورمي بالإرجاء
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAlī b. Muḥammad

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابد
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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