Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2938b

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"On the authority of Abu al-'Ajfa' al-Shami, from the people of Palestine, who said: It was said to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab: 'O Commander of the Believers, would you not appoint a successor?' He said: 'If I had found Abu 'Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah and appointed him, and then I met my Lord and He said to me, "Whom did you appoint over the nation of Muhammad?" I would say: I heard Your servant and Your Prophet ﷺ say: "Every nation has a trustee, and the trustee of this nation is Abu 'Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah." And if I had found Mu'adh ibn Jabal and appointed him, and then I met my Lord and He said to me, "Whom did you appoint over the nation of Muhammad?" I would say: I heard Your servant and Your Prophet ﷺ say: "Mu'adh will come before the scholars by a stride." And if I had found Khalid ibn al-Walid (and appointed him, and then I met my Lord and He asked me, "Whom did you appoint over the nation of Muhammad?") I would say: I heard Your servant and Your Prophet say to Khalid ibn al-Walid: "A sword of the swords of Allah, which Allah has unsheathed against the polytheists."'"

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