How authentic is the narration: "Abu Bakr entered upon me while I was covered with a sheet, and he said: 'No one has met Allah with a record more beloved to me than this one covered with a sheet'"?
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Ali's statement regarding the shrouded body was made concerning Umar, and it was narrated from him by Ahmad, Abu Hanifah, Al-Hakim, and Ibn Abi Shaybah. Al-Arna'ut graded it as (good).
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