2443 – Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Fārisi informed us; he said: Aḥmad b. Saʿīd al-Thaqafi narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā narrated to us; he said: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād narrated to us; Ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us, from Yūnus, from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah, from ʿĀʾisha, who said:

Abu Bakr came out and declared, “Whoever has in his possession any written instruction from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, let him bring it to us.” ʿUmar responded, “Had he left any such instruction, its safekeeping would have been with Allah and then with you.”