Abu Bakr al-Marwazi informed me, saying: 'Ali ibn Khashram wrote to us, saying: I heard Bishr ibn al-Harith saying: Al-Mu'afa was asked—and I was listening—or I asked him: Is Mu'awiyah better or 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz? He replied: "Mu'awiyah was better than six hundred [men] like 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz."
