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muslim:2430[Chain 1] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr And ʾAbū Usāmah [Chain 2] Abū Kurayb > Abū Usāmah And Ibn Numayr And Wakīʿ Waʾabū Muʿāwiyah [Chain 3] Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbdah b. Sulaymān > Hishām b. ʿUrwah And al-Lafẓ Ḥadīth Abū Usāmah [Chain 4] Abū Kurayb > Abū Usāmah > Hishām from his father > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar > ʿAlī Bi-al-Kūfah

The best of the women of her time was Mary, daughter of ʿImran, and the best of the women of her time was Khadija, daughter of Khuwailid. Abu Kuraib said that Wakiʿ pointed towards the sky and the earth.  

مسلم:٢٤٣٠حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ وَأَبُو أُسَامَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ وَابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ وَوَكِيعٌ وَأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَةُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ كُلُّهُمْ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ وَاللَّفْظُ حَدِيثُ أَبِي أُسَامَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا بِالْكُوفَةِ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ خَيْرُ نِسَائِهَا مَرْيَمُ بِنْتُ عِمْرَانَ وَخَيْرُ نِسَائِهَا خَدِيجَةُ بِنْتُ خُوَيْلِدٍ قَالَ أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ وَأَشَارَ وَكِيعٌ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ وَالأَرْضِ