2471 – Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Yaʿqūb transmitted to us; he said: Dalaj ibn Ahmad transmitted to us; he said: Ahmad ibn ʿAli narrated to us; he said: Ahmad ibn Hisham al-Ramli narrated to us; he said: Ḍamrah narrated to us, from Ibn Shawdhab, from Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, who said: “I met the earliest Shiʿah; they did not prefer anyone over Abu Bakr and ʿUmar.”