Companions of the Prophet

Bukhari :: Book 5 :: Volume 57 :: Hadith 47

Narrated Ibn 'Umar:

During the lifetime of the Prophet we considered Abu Bakr as peerless and then 'Umar and then 'Uthman (coming next to him in superiority) and then we used not to differentiate between the companions of the Prophet

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