al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4774

Translation

✧ We, the community of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, while we were numerous, used to say: The best of this Ummah after its Prophet ﷺ is Abu Bakr, then Umar, then Uthman ؓ, then we would fall silent.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3655Sahih al-Bukhari 3697al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8710Musnad al-Bazzar 5871Musnad Abi Ya'la 5603Musnad Abi Ya'la 5605

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

   One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرة
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
3. 3
   Dhakwān al-Sammān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   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
   سُهَيْلٍصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخره
   عن
5. 5
   ʿUmar b. ʿUbayd Allāh

   d. between 181 and 190 AH
   عُمَرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil); he taught the recitation of the Quran for over seventy yearsd. 212 AH, or 213 AH
   الْمُقْرِئُثقة فاضل ، أقرأ القرآن نيفا وسبعين سنة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Ḥārith

   d. 279 AH or 282 AH
   الْحَارِثُ

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