ʿAli ibn Muhammad the ḥāfiẓ, Ismaʿil ibn Maktum, ʿIsa ibn Abi Muhammad, Ahmad ibn Abi Talib, and Abu al-ʿIzz ibn ʿAsakir informed us, saying:
ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar related to us; Abu al-Waqt related to us; al-Dawudi related to us; Ibn Ḥammuyah related to us; Ibrahim ibn Khuzaym related to us; ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Bishr narrated to us, from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:
It was said to ʿUmar, “Will you not appoint a successor?”
He replied, “If I leave the matter, someone better than I—the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—left it. And if I do appoint, someone better than I—Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him)—appointed.” (1)
Agreed upon, through the transmission of Hisham.
75 – ʿUmar ibn Harun ibn Yazid ibn Jabir ibn Salamah al-Thaqafi* (T, Q)
The imam, the scholar of Khurasan, Abu Hafs al-Thaqafi—their client—al-Balkhi, the Qur’an-reciter and ḥadith scholar.
Born in the year twenty-something after one hundred AH; he journeyed in search of knowledge, authored works, and compiled collections.
(1) Reported by Ahmad in al-Musnad 1/43 through the chain of Muhammad b. Bishr; by al-Bukhari 13/177-178 in “Ahkam,” chapter “al-Istikhlaf”; and by Muslim (1823) [11] in “Imara” — the first transmission via Sufyan, the second via Abu Usama (Hammad b. Usama) — both from Hisham b. Urwa with the same isnad. Muslim also narrates it (1823) [12]; likewise al-Tirmidhi (2225) in “Fitan,” Abu Dawud (2939), and Ahmad 1/47, all through Mu‘ammar, from al-Zuhri, from Salim, from Ibn ‘Umar.
(*) See: Ahmad, al-‘Ilal, p. 368; Ibn Ma‘in, Tarikh, p. 435; Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqat 7/374; Khalifa, Tabaqat, no. 3144; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Du‘afa wa-l-Matrukin, p. 85; al-‘Uqayli, al-Du‘afa, fol. 288; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil 6/140; Ibn Hibban, Kitab al-Majruhīn 2/90-91; al-Khatib, Tarikh Baghdad 11/187; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 1025; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 3/93/1; al-Dhahabi, al-‘Ibar 1/316; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1/340; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-I‘tidal 3/228; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif 2/322; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Qurra 1/598; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 7/50; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 142; Ibn al-Imad, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 286; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/341.