358 — ‘Abd Allāh narrated to us: Ismā‘īl Abū Ma‘mar narrated to us, saying: Sufyān said: Our companions related, from Abū Ishāq, who heard Abū ‘Ubayda say: ‘Abd Allāh said:

“My close friends among the Companions of Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) are three—and I have spared no effort: Abū Bakr, ‘Umar, and Abū ‘Ubayda ibn al-Jarrāh.”