1280 — Al-Firyābī also narrated to us, saying: Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, saying: ʿAffān ibn Muslim narrated to us, saying: Hammām ibn Yahyā narrated to us, saying: Thābit al-Bunānī narrated to us, saying: I heard Anas ibn Mālik say: I heard Abū Bakr al-Siddīq—may Allah be pleased with him—say ⦗1820⦘: I said to the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—while we were in the cave, “O Messenger of Allah, if the people were to look toward us, they would see us beneath their feet.” The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—replied, “O Abū Bakr, what do you think of two whose third is Allah?”