2514 – ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim narrated to us; he said: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; he said: Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Sulaymān, from ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The people of Paradise will gaze at those above them in the ranks of ʿIlliyyīn the way a man looks at a star rising on the horizon of the sky. Abū Bakr and ʿUmar are among those lofty ones—and what a blessed pair they are.”

2515 – ʿAlī narrated; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: I heard Ibn ʿArafah say: Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭanafisī said to me regarding the wording ‘wa anʿamā’ (“and what a blessed pair”): he transmitted it as ‘wa arfaʿā’ (“and how exalted they are”).

2516 – Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥabash narrated to us; he said: Mūsā ibn Naṣr narrated to us; he said: Abū Zuhayr and al-Ṣabbāḥ ibn Muḥārib narrated, from Mujālid ibn Saʿīd, from Abū l-Waddāk, from Abū Saʿīd, that the Prophet ﷺ related the same report with the same meaning.