262 – Abu Khaythamah narrated to us; Qabīṣah narrated to us, from Sufyān, from ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, from ʿUqbah ibn al-Ḥārith, who said: “I saw Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) carrying al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī and saying:

[rajaz metre]
‘By my father, he is the very image of the Prophet—
no likeness of ʿAlī do I see.’

And ʿAlī was standing there beside him, smiling.”