al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16200a
✧ What Abu Umamah al-Bahili narrated from Ka'b b. Malik
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ الْعَلَّافُ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ حَدَّثَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ زَحْرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ
عَهْدِي بِنَبِيِّكُمْ ﷺ قَبْلَ وَفَاتِهِ لِخَمْسِ لَيَالٍ فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ «لَمْ يَكُنْ مِنْ نَبِيٍّ إِلَّا وَلَهُ خَلِيلٌ فِي أُمَّتِهِ وَإِنَّ خَلِيلِي أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ وَإِنَّ اللهَ ﷻ اتَّخَذَ صَاحِبَكُمْ خَلِيلًا»
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Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb al-ʿAllāf al-Miṣrī
- Saʿīd b. Abū Maryam
- Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Zaḥr
- ʿAlī b. Yazīd
- al-Qāsim
- Abū Umāmah
- Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Anṣārī
- ʿAhdī Binabiyyikum ﷺ Qabl And Fātih Likhams Layāl Fasamiʿtuh
✧ My acquaintance with your Prophet ﷺ was five nights before his death. I heard him say: "There was no prophet but had an intimate friend among his community, and my intimate friend is Abu Bakr b. Abi Quhafah. Indeed, Allah ﷻ has taken your companion as an intimate friend."
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