Reference: Siyar A’laam an-Nubalaa – Volume 4, Page 532
‘Abdullaah ibn Bakr ibn ‘Abdillaah said, I heard a person speaking about my father, [saying that] when he (my father) was standing in ‘Arafah, he said:
If it were not that I was amongst them (this group of righteous men), I would have said [in shaa.-Allaah] they have been forgiven [by Allaah].