al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4628
✧ The Virtue of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, ᴿᴬ
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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ، ثَنَا نَافِعُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ، قَالَ:
قُلْتُ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ: يَا خَلِيفَةَ اللهِ، قَالَ ؓ: أَنَا خَلِيفَةُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، وَأَرْضَى بِذَلِكَ
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Chain of narrators
- Ibn Abū Zāʾidah
- Nāfiʿ b. ʿUmar
- Ibn Abū Mulaykah
✧ I said to Abu Bakr ؓ, 'O Caliph of Allah,' and he ؓ said, 'I am the Caliph of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I am content with that.'
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 59Musnad Ahmad 64Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38204
Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمقال
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 117 AH, also said: 118 AH, and al-Dhahabī stated it definitivelyابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَثقة فقيهعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 169 AHنَافِعُ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 183, also said 180 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 184 AHابْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَثقة متقنحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأحمد بن منيع البغويثقة حافظ
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