We were told by Sa‘īd ibn ‘Amr al-Ash‘athī, Abū al-Rabī‘ al-‘Atakī, and Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-‘Alā’ — and the wording is that of Abū Kurayb. Abū al-Rabī‘ said: “We were told,” while the other two said: “We were informed,” — by Ibn al-Mubārak, from ‘Umar ibn Sa‘īd ibn Abī Ḥusayn, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, who said: I heard Ibn ‘Abbās say: “When ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb was placed upon his bier, the people gathered around him, supplicating, praising him, and praying over him before he was carried away — and I was among them. Nothing startled me except a man who took hold of my shoulder from behind me. I turned to him, and there was ‘Alī. He asked mercy for ‘Umar and said: ‘You have not left behind anyone whose deeds I would rather meet Allah with than yours. By Allah, I used to think that Allah would place you with your two companions — and that is because I often heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “I came, I and Abū Bakr and ‘Umar; I entered, I and Abū Bakr and ‘Umar; and I went out, I and Abū Bakr and ‘Umar.” So I used to hope — or I used to think — that Allah would place you with them.’”