Is it confirmed that Umar ibn al-Khattab said: "If I had met Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, and then appointed him and then stood before my Lord, and He asked me, 'Why did you appoint him over the Ummah of Muhammad?' I would have said, 'I heard Your servant and Your intimate friend say, "For every nation there is an amin (trustee), and the amin of this Ummah is Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah."' And if I had met Khalid ibn al-Walid, and then appointed him and then stood before my Lord, and He asked me, 'Whom did you appoint over the Ummah of Muhammad?' I would have said, 'I heard Your servant and Your intimate friend say to Khalid, "Khalid is a sword from the swords of Allah, which Allah has unsheathed against the idolaters'"?
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Perhaps the question was incomplete. The tradition from Ibn Asakir regarding the virtues of Abu Ubaydah and Khalid ibn al-Walid has reliable narrators, except for Abu al-Ajfaa al-Sulami, about whom there is a difference of opinion. Other hadiths corroborate the authenticity of this tradition, among them that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, described Abu Ubaydah as the 'trustee of this Ummah' and Khalid ibn al-Walid as a 'sword from the swords of Allah.'
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