Abdullah ibn Hantab reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, saw Abu Bakr and Umar, saying, “These two are the hearing and the sight.”
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 3671
Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Albani
Imam al-Qari commented, “Meaning, their two souls are one to the extent they are like a single balanced man, or they are among the Muslims or in the religion like hearing and seeing, not merely as limbs… or they are both to me as if they were in the honorable position of seeing and hearing.”
Source: Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ 9/3914
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ حَنْطَبٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَأَى أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ فَقَالَ هَذَانِ السَّمْعُ وَالْبَصَرُ
3671 سنن الترمذي أبواب المناقب
7004 المحدث الألباني خلاصة حكم المحدث صحيح في صحيح الجامع
قال الإمام القاري أَيْ نَفْسُهُمَا مُبَالَغَةً كَرَجُلٍ عَدْلٍ أَوْ هُمَا فِي الْمُسْلِمِينَ أَوْ فِي الدِّينِ كَالسَّمْعِ وَالْبَصَرِ لَا الْأَعْضَاءِ … أَوْ هُمَا فِي الْعِزَّةِ عِنْدِي بِمَنْزِلَتِهِمَا
9/3914مرقاة المفاتيح شرح مشكاة المصابيح كتاب المناقب باب مناقب أبي بكر وعمر
