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113 — ‘Abd Allāh narrated to us, saying: Umm Muhammad Khadīja—an elderly woman who used to visit my father, may Allah have mercy on him, to hear hadith from him and would narrate to us—narrated to me, saying: Abū al-Nadr narrated to us, saying: Abū Ja‘far al-Rāzī narrated to us, from Rabī‘ ibn Anas, who said:
“Abū Bakr al-Siddīq is likened in the earlier Scripture to rain: wherever it falls, it brings benefit.”
١١٣ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَتْنِي أُمُّ مُحَمَّدٍ خَدِيجَةُ - عَجُوزٌ كَانَتْ تَخْتَلِفُ إِلَى أَبِي ﵀ تَسْمَعُ مِنْهُ وَتُحَدِّثُنَا - قَالَتْ: نا أَبُو النَّضْرِ قثنا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيُّ، عَنْ رَبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: مَثَلُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ فِي الْكِتَابِ الْأَوَّلِ مَثَلُ الْقَطْرِ، أَيْنَمَا وَقَعَ نَفَعَ.