2672 — ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Fārisī narrated to us; he said: Bakr ibn Sahl al-Dimyāṭī narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Manṣūr narrated to us; he said: I heard Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn say, “Whoever says, ‘Abu Bakr and ʿUmar,’ there is no harm; whoever says, ‘Abu Bakr, ʿUmar, and ʿUthmān,’ there is no harm; and whoever says, ‘Abu Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿUthmān, and ʿAlī,’ that is dearer to me.”