1479 — Abū Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Nājiya informed us, saying: Abū Mamar al-Qatīī narrated to us, saying: Hushaym ibn Bashīr narrated to us, from Kawthar ibn Hakīm, from Nāfi, from Ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“And the most genuinely modest of them is Uthmān ibn Affān.”

⦗2009⦘ Muhammad ibn al-Husayn—may Allah have mercy on him—said: It has been narrated through several routes that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“The most compassionate of my community toward my community is Abū Bakr; the strongest of them in upholding Allah’s religion is Umar; the most genuinely modest of them is Uthmān ibn Affān; and the most competent of them in judgment is Alī ibn Abī Tālib”—may Allah be pleased with them. He then cited the hadith.