Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40444 — Reports on the tribulation

Awf narrates from Muhammad bin Sirin that he said: There will be a caliph in this Ummah over whom Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) cannot be given superiority (what is meant is that in the last age, in the signs of righteousness within this Ummah and in the spreading of justice and equity among its members, he will resemble the two Shaykhs; otherwise, the superiority of the two Shaykhs is a settled matter).