Volume 5, Book 57, Number 20:
Narrated Muhammad bin Al-Hanafiya:
I asked my father (‘Ali bin Abi Talib), “Who are the best people after Allah’s Apostle ?” He said, “Abu
Bakr.” I asked, “Who then?” He said, “Then ‘Umar. ” I was afraid he would say “Uthman, so I said,
“Then you?” He said, “I am only an ordinary person.
Volume 5, Book 57, Number 5:
Narrated Abu Bakr:
I said to the Prophet while I was in the Cave. “If any of them should look under his feet, he would
see us.” He said, “O Abu Bakr! What do you think of two (persons) the third of whom is Allah?”
Volume 5, Book 57, Number 21:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
We went out with Allah’s Apostle on one of his journeys till we reached Al-Baida or Dhatul-Jaish
where my necklace got broken (and lost). Allah’s Apostle stopped to search for it and the people too
stopped with him. There was no water at that place and they had no water with them. So they went
to Abu Bakr and said, “Don’t you see what ‘Aisha has done? She has made Allah’s Apostle and the
people stop where there is no water and they have no water with them. Abu Bakr came while Allah’s
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Apostle was sleeping with his head on my thigh and said, “You detained Allah Apostle and the people
where there is no water and they have no water.” He then admonished me and said what Allah
wished and pinched me at my flanks with his hands, but I did not move because the head of Allah’s
Apostle was on my thigh .
Allah’s Apostle kept on sleeping till be got up in the morning and found no water. Then Allah re –
vealed the Divine Verse of Tayammum, and the people performed Tayammum. Usaid bin AlHudair
said. “O family of Abu Bakr! This is not the first blessings of yours.” We urged the camel on which I
was sitting to get up from its place and the necklace was found under it.
Volume 5, Book 57, Number 1:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
“Allah’s Apostle said, “A time will come upon the people, when a group of people will wage a holy
war and it will be said, ‘Is there amongst you anyone who has accompanied Allah’s Apostle?’ They
will say, ‘Yes.’ And so victory will be bestowed on them. Then a time will come upon the people when
a group of people will wage a holy war, and it will be said, “Is there amongst you a none who has ac –
companied the companions of Allah’s Apostle?’ They will say, ‘Yes.’ And so victory will be bestowed
on them. Then a time will come upon the people when a group of people will wage a holy war, and
it will be said, “Is there amongst you anyone who has been in the company of the companions of the
companions of Allah’s Apostle ?’ They will say, ‘Yes.’ And victory will be bestowed on them.”
Volume 5, Book 57, Number 2:
Narrated Imran bin Husain:
“Allah’s Apostle said, ‘The best of my followers are those living in my generation (i.e. my contem –
poraries). and then those who will follow the latter” ‘Imran added, “I do not remember whether he
mentioned two or three generations after his generation, then the Prophet added, ‘There will come
after you, people who will bear witness without being asked to do so, and will be treacherous and
untrustworthy, and they will vow and never fulfill their vows, and fatness will appear among them.”
Volume 5, Book 57, Number 3:
Narrated Abdullah:
The Prophet said, “The best people are those living in my generation, and then those who will fol –
low them, and then those who will follow the latter. Then there will come some people who will bear
witness before taking oaths, and take oaths before bearing witness.” (Ibrahim, a sub-narrator said,
“They used to beat us for witnesses and covenants when we were still children.”)