"The most merciful of my nation towards my nation is Abū Bakr, the most severe of them in the matter of Allāh is ʿUmar, the most truthful of them in modesty is ʿUthmān, the best reciter of the Book of Allāh is Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, the most knowledgeable of them in the laws of inheritance is Zayd ibn Thābit, and the most knowledgeable of them in what is lawful and unlawful is Muʿādh ibn Jabal. Indeed, every nation has a trustworthy one, and the trustworthy one of this nation is Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ." It was narrated by al-Tirmidhī (2/309), Ibn Mājah (154), Ibn Ḥibbān (2218) and (2219), and al-Ḥākim (3/422) through the route of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Thaqafī, who reported from Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, from Abū Qilābah, from Anas who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. Al-Tirmidhī said: "A good and authentic ḥadīth." Al-Ḥākim said: "This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and it is as they said. Sufyān al-Thawrī also followed up with Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ on it. It was narrated by Aḥmad (3/184), al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Mushkil al-Āthār" (1/351), Abū Nuʿaym (3/122), Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" (2/296/2, 6/282/2, 11/97/2), and al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (3/534/2) Islamic Library edition. Wahīb also followed up with Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ on it. It was narrated by Aḥmad (3/280), al-Ṭaḥāwī, and also al-Ṭayālisī (2096). ʿAbd al-Aʿlá ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlá followed up on the last part of it with al-Bukhārī (7/73). And Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah with Muslim (7/129), and the first explicitly stated the narration of Abū Qilābah from Anas. The ḥadīth has been criticized with a rare defect, as al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Fatḥ" after attributing it to al-Tirmidhī and Ibn Ḥibbān: "Its isnād is authentic, except that al-Ḥāfiẓ said: The correct view is that it is mursal at the beginning, and the connected part is what al-Bukhārī limited himself to. And Allāh knows best."