" Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl (who is al-Bukhārī) said, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: They are the people of ḥadīth." 3 - Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (164 - 241), al-Ḥākim narrated in "Maʿrifat ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth" (p. 2) and al-Khaṭīb with two isnāds, one of which was authenticated by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar, that Imām Aḥmad was asked about the meaning of this ḥadīth and he said: "If this victorious group is not the people of ḥadīth, then I do not know who they are." Al-Khaṭīb narrated similarly (33/3) in the interpretation of the saved sect. 4 - Aḥmad ibn Sanān, the trustworthy ḥāfiẓ (… - 259), al-Khaṭīb narrated from Abū Ḥātim who said: I heard Aḥmad ibn Sanān mention the ḥadīth "A group of my ummah will remain upon the truth" and he said: They are the people of knowledge and the people of reports. 5 - Al-Bukhārī Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl (194 - 256), al-Khaṭīb narrated from Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad who said: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī narrated to us - and he mentioned the ḥadīth of Mūsá ibn ʿUqbah from Abū al-Zubayr from Jābir from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "A group of my ummah will remain," and al-Bukhārī said: meaning the people of ḥadīth. And he said in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" where he suspended the ḥadīth and made it a chapter: "And they are the people of knowledge," and there is no contradiction between this and what preceded, as is evident, because the people of knowledge are the people of ḥadīth, and the more knowledgeable a person is in ḥadīth, the more knowledgeable he is in knowledge than someone who is less knowledgeable in ḥadīth, as is clear. And he said in his book "Khalq Afʿāl al-ʿIbād" (p. 77 - Indian edition) and he mentioned with his isnād the ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī regarding the verse of Allāh (And thus We have made you a just community that you will be..