1558 — Abū Muhammad Yahyā ibn Muhammad ibn Sā‘id related to us, saying: Ubayd Allah ibn Sa‘d ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sa‘d al-Zuhrī related to us, saying: My paternal uncle—meaning Ya‘qūb ibn Ibrāhīm—related to me, saying: Sallām Abū Abd Allah al-Tamīmī related to us. Abū Muhammad said: He was Ibn Salm al-Tawīl al-Madā’inī. He narrated from Zayd al-Ammī, from Abū al-Siddīq al-Nājī, from Abū Sa‘īd al-Khudrī, who said: The Messenger of Allah—may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him—said: “The member of this nation most merciful toward it is Abū Bakr; the strongest of them in the religion of Allah is Umar; the most genuinely modest among them is Uthmān; the best judge among them is Ali; the most proficient reciter of the Book of Allah Most High is Ubayy ibn Ka‘b; the most knowledgeable among them concerning the prescribed shares of inheritance is Zayd ibn Thābit; the trustee of this nation is Abū Ubayda ibn al-Jarrāh; Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal is the person most knowledgeable about what Allah has made lawful ⦗2074⦘ and unlawful; Abū Hurayra is a repository of knowledge; and Salmān is unfathomable knowledge.” He also mentioned the truthfulness of Abū Dharr.