2410 – Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Yaʿqub narrated to us; he said: Muhammad ibn Harun al-Ruyani narrated to us; he said: ʿAmr ibn ʿAli narrated to us; he said: Abu ʿAsim narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Ibn Abi Mulaykah, who said: Ibn al-Zubayr wrote to the people of Basra informing them that the man about whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “If I were to take someone as an intimate friend, I would have taken him as such,” had ruled that the paternal grandfather is treated as a father in matters of inheritance—that man was Abu Bakr. In this chapter there are also reports from Jundub and Kaʿb ibn Malik.