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Sahih Muslim 2383b

The Virtues Of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (RA)

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لاِبْنِ الْمُثَنَّى قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ

لَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا مِنْ أُمَّتِي أَحَدًا خَلِيلاً لاَتَّخَذْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná and Ibn Bashhār and -al-Lafẓ Lāib. al-Muthanná
  2. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. Abū Isḥāq
  5. Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
  6. ʿAbdullāh
  7. al-Nabī ﷺ

If I were to choose from my Umma anyone as my bosom friend, I would have chosen Abu Bakr.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 467Musnad Ahmad 16107Musnad Ahmad 2432Sunan ad-Darimi 2953al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12546Musnad al-Bazzar 2209

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
    One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
    عن
  2. ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Naḍlah al-Jushamī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf
    أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقة
    عن
  3. Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
    أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
    عن
  4. Shuʿbah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
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  5. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
    Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
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  6. Muḥammad b. Bashshār
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
    وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
    حدثنا
  7. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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شرح مشكل الآثار
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)

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