93 — ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Abū ʿAbd al-Rahmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to me in Kufa in the year 230: Al-Muhāribī narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, from Zubayd al-Yāmī, from al-Shaʿbī, from someone who related to him, from ʿAlī, who said:

I was sitting with the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when Abū Bakr and ʿUmar approached. When Allah’s Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saw them, he said: “O ʿAlī, these two are the leaders of the middle-aged men among the people of Paradise, from the earliest generations to the last, except for the prophets and messengers.” Then he said: “O ʿAlī, do not tell them.”
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94 — ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Abān narrated to me: Al-Muhāribī narrated to us, from Abū Janāb, from Zubayd, from ʿĀmir, from Nufayʿ—or Ibn Nufayʿ—from ʿAlī, a similar report.