Excellence of the Two Sheikh’s (ra)
Regarding the excellence of Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) and Hazrat Umar (ra), Hazrat Abu Saeed Khudri (ra) narrates that the Holy Prophet (sa) said, “From among the ‘illiyyin’ [the loftiest people], one will gaze at the dwellers of Paradise, and due to his countenance, the whole of Paradise will glow and radiate as though it were a shining star, and Abu Bakr and Umar are among those people – both are such excellent people.”
(Sunan Abi Dawud, Kitab al-Huruf wa al-Qira‘at, Hadith 3987)