Ahmad da at-Tirmidhi sun ruwaito daga Anas ibn Malik cewa: Manzon Allah, Allah ya yi masa salati ya kuma ba shi aminci, ya ce, "Mafi jinƙan cikin al'ummata ga al'ummata shi ne Abu Bakr, mafi tsananin cikinsu wajen al'amarin Allah shi ne Umar, mafi gaskiyar kunyarsu shi ne Uthman, mafi sanin halal da haram cikinsu shi ne Mu'azh bin Jabal, mafi sanin dokokin gado cikinsu shi ne Zaid ibn Thabit, mafi iya karatu cikinsu (a karatun Alkur'ani) shi ne Ubayy ibn Ka'b, kuma kowace al'umma tana da amintacce, kuma amintaccen wannan al'umma shi ne Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah." Abu Ya'la ya ruwaito shi daga hadisin Ibn Umar, ya kuma ƙara a cikin ruwayarsa, "kuma mafi hukunci cikinsu (a matsayin alƙali) shi ne Ali." Ad-Daylami ya ruwaito shi a cikin Musnad al-Firdaws daga hadisin Shaddad ibn Aws, wanda ya ƙara a cikinsa, "Abu Zarr shi ne mafi nisantar duniya cikin al'ummata, kuma mafi gaskiya cikinsu; Abu d-Darda' shi ne mafi yawan ibada cikin al'ummata, kuma yana da mafi tsoron biyayya cikinsu; Mu'awiyya ibn Abi Sufyan kuma shi ne mafi haƙuri cikin al'ummata, kuma mafi yawan kyauta." Shaikhinmu al-Khafaji an tambaye shi game da waɗannan halaye na musamman da ko suna karyata waɗanda aka ambata a baya, sai ya amsa da cewa babu wani sabani a tsakaninsu.

Ahmad and at-Tirmidhi narrated that Anas ibn Malik said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘The most merciful of my ummah towards my ummah is Abu Bakr, the most severe of them in the matter of Allah is cUmar, the most truly modest of them is cUthman, the most knowledgeable of them of the halal and the haram is Mucadh bin Jabal, the most knowledgeable in the laws of inheritance is Zayd ibn Thabit, the best read of them (in Qur’an reading) is Ubayy ibn Kacb, and every ummah has a trusted one and the trusted one of this ummah is Abu cUbaydah ibn al-Jarrah.’ Abu YaTa narrated it from the hadith of Ibn cUmar and added (in his narration) to it, ‘and the most decisive of them (as Qadi) is cAli.’ Ad-Daylami narrated it in Musnad al-Firdaws from a hadith of Shaddad ibn Aws who added to it, ‘and Abu Dharr is the most abstinent of my ummah and the most truthful of them, Abu’d-Darda’ is the most given to worship of my ummah and has the most fearful obedience of them, and Mucawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan is the most forbearing of my ummah and the most liberally generous.’ Our Shaykh al-Khafiji was asked about these distinguishing i haracteristics and whether they negated the ones previously given and he replied that there was no contradiction.