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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقَ ؓ كَانَ أَحَبَّ النَّاسِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ

ibnhibban:6862 – Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm a freed slave of Thaqīf > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿīd al-Jawharī > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Ūways > Sulaymān b. Bilāl > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah > ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

"Abu Bakr is our chief, and the best of us, and the most beloved of us to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 3656)   

ابن حبّان:٦٨٦٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ مَوْلَى ثَقِيفٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ

«كَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحَبَّنَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَكَانَ خَيَرَنَا وَسَيِّدَنَا»  

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tirmidhi:3656 – Ibrāhīm b. Saʿīd al-Jawharī > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Ūways > Sulaymān b. Bilāl > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah > ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

"Abu Bakr is our chief, and the best of us, and the most beloved of us to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."  

الترمذي:٣٦٥٦ – حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلاَلٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ

أَبُو بَكْرٍ سَيِّدُنَا وَخَيْرُنَا وَأَحَبُّنَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ  

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