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1255 – Abū al-Qāsim Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad al-Baghawī also narrated to me; he said: Alī ibn Muslim al-Tūsī narrated to us; he said: Yūsuf ibn Yaqūb narrated to us; he said: I heard our senior scholars—the jurists among them being Sad ibn Ibrāhīm, Sālih ibn Kaysān, Rabīa ibn Abī Abd al-Rahmān, Uthmān ibn Muhammad al-Akshanī, and several others—mention that “Abū Bakr—may Allah be pleased with him—was the first to embrace Islam.”
١٢٥٥ - وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْبَغَوِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الطُّوسِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مَشْيَخَتَنَا أَهْلَ الْفِقْهِ مِنْهُمْ: سَعْدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ , وَصَالِحُ بْنُ كَيْسَانَ , وَرَبِيعَةُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ , وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَخْشَنِيُّ , وَغَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ يَذْكُرُونَ «أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ ﵁ أَوَّلُ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ»