408 - ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, saying: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to me, saying: Sharīk narrated to us, from Abū Ishāq, from Abū Juhayfah, who said: ʿAlī said:

“The best of this community after its Prophet is Abū Bakr, and after Abū Bakr, ʿUmar. If I wished to tell you who the third is, I would.”