By his saying, peace be upon him, if there are scholars of hadith in my nation, then among them is Omar

! And what he said about Abu Bakr regarding his virtue in secrets is different from him, and if these sciences had not been denied in existence, the saying of Abu Hurairah would not have been of any benefit. Abu Hurairah’s saying: “I memorized two vessels from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and as for one of them, I scattered it, and as for the other, if I scattered it, this pharynx would be cut off from me.” The jurist Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ubaid narrated it to me. Al-Hajri in Ceuta in Ramadan in the year five hundred and eighty-nine at his house, and Abu al-Walid Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Arabi also told me about it at his house in Seville in the year five hundred and ninety-two. In others, all of them said, he told us, except for Abu al-Walid bin al-Arabi, for he said, I heard Abu al-Hasan Shurayh bin Muhammad bin Shurayh al-Ru’