2326 – ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿUmar informed us; he said: Ahmad ibn Yaʿqub informed us; he said: my grandfather Yaʿqub ibn Shaybah narrated to us; he said: Zakariyya ibn Sahl al-Marwazi narrated to us; he said: ʿAli ibn al-Hasan ibn Shaqiq narrated to us, saying, “I asked ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubarak about al-jamaʿah (the mainstream community), and he replied, ‘Abu Bakr and ʿUmar.’”