53 — ‘Abdullāh narrated to us, saying: Abū ‘Abd al-Rahmān Salamah ibn Shabīb al-Naysābūrī narrated to me, saying: Marwān ibn Muhammad al-Tātarī narrated to us, saying: Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated to us, saying: Yahyā ibn Sa‘īd narrated to us, from Nāfi‘, from Ibn ‘Umar, who said:

“During the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), we regarded Abū Bakr, ‘Umar, and ‘Uthmān as superior. We did not give anyone precedence over anyone else.”