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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:1-416b – Mʿāwyh b. Bá Sfyān
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١-٤١٦b –

"عنْ معاوية بن أبى سفيان قال: إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ تُرِدْ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَلَمْ يُرِدْهَا، وَأَرَادَتِ ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ وَلَمْ يُرِدْهَا".

[حم] أحمد فيه

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[Machine] "Verily, the world did not want Abu Bakr, nor did he want it, and it wanted Ibn Al-Khattab, but he did not want it."

الزهد لأحمد:٥٨٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أبِي حَدَّثَنَا حَرَمِيُّ بْنُ عُمَارَةَ حَدَّثَنِي الْحَسَنُ بْنُ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَارَةُ بْنُ أَبِي حَفْصٍ عَنْ أَبِي مِجْلَزٍ أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ قَالَ

«إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ تُرِدْ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَلَمْ يُرِدْهَا وَأَرَادَتِ ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ وَلَمْ يُرِدْهَا»