al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4626
✧ The Virtue of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, ᴿᴬ
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: سَمِعْتُ جَرِيرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ، يَقُولُ:
إِنْ لَمْ أُفَضِّلْ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ؓ أَكُونُ قَدْ كَذَّبْتُ عَلِيًّا، وَإِنِّي إِلَى تَصْدِيقِ عَلِيٍّ ؓ أَحْوَجُ مِنِّي إِلَى تَكْذِيبِهِ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Jarīr b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd
✧ If I do not prefer Abu Bakr and Umar over Ali ؓ, I would have belied Ali; and I am more in need of affirming Ali ؓ than of belying him.
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- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهسمعت
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
- d. 852 AHابن حجر
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