2598 – Kūhiyy ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf narrated to us; he said: Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us; he said: Abū Hammām al-Walīd ibn Shujāʿ narrated to us; he said: Shadhān narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us, from—[the chain breaks here]. ḥ

2599 – And Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣbahānī informed us; he said: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Muqrī narrated to us; he said: al-Faḍl ibn Sahl narrated to us; he said: Aswad ibn ʿĀmir narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Salamah al-Mājishūn, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, said:

“During the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we considered no one equal to Abū Bakr, then ʿUmar, then ʿUthmān. After that, we would leave the other Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ alone and would not rank any of them above the others.” ⦗1446⦘

The wording of the two reports is identical, and al-Bukhārī also recorded it.