421 - ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to me, saying: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Sufyān and Shuʿbah, from Habīb ibn Abī Thābit, from ʿAbd Khayr, from ʿAlī, who said:

“Shall I tell you who are the best of this community after its Prophet? Abū Bakr, then ʿUmar.”