the Council Hall (Saqifah), because Abū Bakr considered him fully qualified. (1)
His lineage and that of the Prophet ﷺ meet at Fihr.
The Prophet ﷺ testified that he will be in Paradise, named him “the Custodian of this Ummah,” and his virtues are both famous and numerous.
He related only a few ḥadiths (2) and joined many of the celebrated campaigns.
Among those who transmitted from him are al-ʿIrbāḍ ibn Sāriyah, Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī, Samurah ibn Jundub, Aslam the freedman of ʿUmar, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm, and others.
In Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim only one ḥadith is recorded from him; the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā (al-Tirmidhī) likewise preserves one; while the Musnad of Baqīʿ contains fifteen.

Transmission on his authority:
Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Tamīmī informed us—this was read to him in the year 694 AH—who said: Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzār informed us; he said: Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd, Abū al-Qāsim al-Maʿarrī, informed us in Rajab 529 AH at Herat; he said: Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; he said: Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān informed us; he said: Abū Yaʿlā Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Qurashī narrated to us; he said: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaqīq, from (3) ʿAbd Allāh ibn Surāqah, from Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ, who said:

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