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Musnad Ahmad 283

Why don’t you appoint a successor? He said: If I do not do that, one who is better than me did not do it either, namely the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam); if I do that, one who is…

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ

قِيلَ لَهُ أَلَا تَسْتَخْلِفُ فَقَالَ: إِنْ أَتْرُكْ فَقَدْ تَرَكَ مَنْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَإِنْ أَسْتَخْلِفْ فَقَدْ اسْتَخْلَفَ مَنْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي أَبُو بَكْرٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ

Why don’t you appoint a successor? He said: If I do not do that, one who is better than me did not do it either, namely the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam); if I do that, one who is better than me did it too, namely Abu Bakr.

Musnad Ahmad 283, Book 2, Musnad `Umar b. al-Khattab (ra), Hadith 206. 1 min read

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam Ahmad back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam AhmadCompiler, died 241 AH
  2. 2Muhammad ibn BishrTold us, Third generation, died 203 AH
  3. 3Hisham ibn UrwahTold us, Successor, died 145 AH
  4. 4Urwah ibn az-ZubayrFrom, Successor, died 91 AH
  5. 5Abdullah ibn UmarFrom, Companion, died 72 AH
  6. 6Umar ibn al-KhattabThat, Companion, died 23 AH

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