347 — ‘Abd Allāh narrated to us: ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn ‘Umar al-Qawārīrī narrated to me: Hammād ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Ayyūb, from Ja‘far ibn Muhammad; and from Ayyūb, from ‘Amr ibn Dīnār. Hammād said, “I also heard ‘Amr relate it from Abū Ja‘far.” Hammād said, “I also heard it from Abū Jahdam, who said:

When ‘Umar had been stabbed, washed, shrouded, and covered with a cloth, ‘Alī entered, prayed for Allah’s mercy upon him, and said, ‘There is no one on earth today whose record of deeds I would rather meet Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, with than this man lying beneath the cloth.’”