1165 – Abu Ja‘far Ahmad ibn Ishāq ibn al-Bahlūl, the judge, reported to us. He said: My father—may Allah have mercy on him—reported to me. He said: My father—may Allah be pleased with him—reported to me, from Sallām ibn Salm al-Tamīmī, from Zayd al-‘Ammī, from Abu al-Siddīq al-Nājī, from Abu Sa‘īd al-Khudrī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Indeed, the member of this Ummah most compassionate toward it is Abu Bakr; the strongest of them in the religion of ⦗1689⦘ Allah is ‘Umar; the most knowledgeable of them in inheritance law is Zayd ibn Thābit; the best judge among them is ‘Ali ibn Abī Tālib; the most sincerely modest of them is ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Affān; the trustee of this Ummah is Abu ‘Ubayd ibn al-Jarrāh; the most proficient of them in reciting the Book of Allah is Ubayy ibn Ka‘b; Abu Hurayrah is a repository of knowledge; Salmān is knowledge beyond reach; Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal knows more than anyone else about what Allah has made lawful and unlawful; and the green sky has never shaded, nor the gravelly earth borne, anyone more truthful in speech than Abu Dharr.”