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bayhaqi:21493Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-Walīd > ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad > Bundār > Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī > Sufyān > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > ʿUmar And ʿUthmān

[Machine] And Uthman said, "Authority belongs to the elder ones."  

البيهقي:٢١٤٩٣أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ أنبأ أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ثنا بُنْدَارٌ ثنا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ أَنَّ عُمَرَ

وَعُثْمَانَ ؓ قَالَا الْوَلَاءُ لِلْكُبْرِ  


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darimi:3072Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Maṭar al-Warrāq

[Machine] Umar and Ali, loyalty to the elder.  

الدارمي:٣٠٧٢حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مَطَرًا الْوَرَّاقَ يَقُولُ قَالَ

عُمَرُ وَعَلِيٌّ «الْوَلَاءُ لِلْكُبْرِ»  

darimi:3073Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá > Rawḥ > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ And Ibn Jurayj > Ibn Ṭāwus from his father

[Machine] "The loyalty belongs to the arrogance."  

الدارمي:٣٠٧٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى عَنْ رَوْحٍ عَنْ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ وَابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ ابْنِ طَاوُسٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«الْوَلَاءُ لِلْكُبْرِ»  

darimi:3074ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá > Isrāʾīl > Manṣūr > Ibrāhīm

[Machine] "The loyalty is to the seniors."  

الدارمي:٣٠٧٤أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ

«الْوَلَاءُ لِلْكُبْرِ»