So I asked the one next to me, and he said, “ All of them will be from Quraysh .

So I asked the one next to me, and he said, “ All of them will be from Quraysh .”[^8] Shaykh al-Arnaut comments: حديث صحيح وهذا إسناد حسن من أجل سماك It is a sahih hadith , and this chain is hasan due to Simak. ^9 Imam al-Tirmidhi (d. 279 H) says about the same hadith : هذا حديث حسن صحيح This hadith is hasan sahih [^10] And ‘Allamah al-Albani (d.

1420 H) agrees: صحيح Sahih ^11 Imam Ahmad further records: حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي ثنا مؤمل بن إسماعيل ثنا حماد بن سلمة حدثنا داود بن هند عن الشعبي عن جابر بن سمرة قال سمعت النبي صلى الله عليه و سلم يقول يكون لهذه الأمة اثنا عشر خليفة ‘Abd Allah (b. Ahmad) – my father (Ahmad b. Hanbal) – Mumal b. Isma’il – Hamad b. Salamah – Dawud b. Hind – al-Shu’bi – Jabir b. Samurah: I heard the Prophet, peace be upon him,