Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 4627

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ كُنَّا نَقُولُ فِي زَمَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم لاَ نَعْدِلُ بِأَبِي بَكْرٍ أَحَدًا ثُمَّ عُمَرَ ثُمَّ عُثْمَانَ ثُمَّ نَتْرُكُ أَصْحَابَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم لاَ تَفَاضُلَ بَيْنَهُمْ ‏.‏

Translation

Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Aswad ibn Amir narrated to us; Abd al-Aziz ibn Abi Salamah narrated to us, from Ubayd Allah, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, who said: ‘In the time of the Prophet, we used to say: “We would not consider anyone equal to Abu Bakr; then [in rank came] Umar, then Uthman. Then we would leave the Prophet’s Companions without ranking one above another.”’