210 - proof that abu bakr was deserving of the khalafah

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Proof that Abu Bakr -Radi Allaahu anhu-was Deserving of

the Khalafah

Taken from the bookThe Life of the Greatest Man After the

Prophets & Messengers:Abu Bakr as-Siddeeq

Compiled ByMuhammad Uthmaan al-Anjaaree

Translated by

Abbas Abu Yahya

a Shaykh ul-Islaam Ahmad bin AbdulHaleem Ibn

Taymeeyah (d.728 A.H.) -Rahimullaah- said:

As for the level excellence of Abu Bakr then Umar,

then Uthmaan and Ali, then this is agreed upon

between the Imams of knowledge and Deen, from

amongst the Companions and Tabaeen. It is the

Madhab of Malik, Ahl-ul- Madinah, Abu Hanifah,

Hamad bin Zayed, Hamad bin Salamah and the likes

of them from the people of Iraq and it is the Madhab

of Shaafiee, Ahmad, Ishaq, Abu Ubayd and other

than them from the Imams of Islaam who have a

truthful tongue from amongst the Ummah.

[Majmoo al-Fatawa 4/421]

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b - Imam Nawawi said:

The Ummah is agreed upon the correctness of the

Khalafah of Abu Bakr and his precedence over the

Companions -Radi Allaahu anhum ajmaeen- due to him being

the best of them, and the most deserving for the

Khalafah than other than him.

[Tahathab al-Asmaa 2/191]

c Hafidh Suyootee said:

Ahl-ul-Sunnah are united that the best person after

the Messenger of Allaahis Abu Bakr, then Umar, then

Uthmaan and then Ali.

[Tareekh al-Khulafah p.34]

d From Ibn Abi Layla who said:

Abu Bakr and Umar were being discussed, so a man from

Attarad said: Umar is better than Abu Bakr.

Al-Jarrood said: Rather Abu Bakr is better than him.

This news reached Umar -Radi Allaahu anhu, and he began to

beat him with a stick until he ran off, then he turned to al-

Jarrood but he said:

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Be away from me!

Then Umar said:

Abu Bakr was the best of the people after the

Messenger of Allaah -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam- in such and

such thing.

Then Umar said:

Whoever says other than this, then we will do to him

what we do to a slanderer.

[Collected by Abdullaah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal in as-Sunnah 2/579]

e From Abdullaah bin Salmah who said I heard Ali saying:

The best of the people after the Messenger of Allaah

is Abu Bakr, and the best of the people after Abu

Bakr is Umar . . . . .

[Collected by Ibn Majah & authenticated by Albaani no. 86]

f From Abu Juhayfah who said: I heard Ali saying:

Shall I not inform you who is the best of this Ummah

after its Prophet, it is Abu Bakr.

Then Ali continued:

Shall I not inform you who is the best of this Ummah

after Abu Bakr it is Umar.

[Collected by Ahmad & authenticated by Ahmad Shakir. Imam Dhahabi said in

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Tareekh al-Khulafah p.115: I swear by Allaah the Magnificent, that this is what Ali

said and it is Mutawatir from him, because he said this while on the Mimbar in

Koofah, may Allaah fight the Rafidaah, how ignorant they are!]

g From Muhammad bin al-Hanafeeyah who said:

I said to Ali bin Abi Taalib: O my father, who of the

people is the best after the Messenger of Allaah

-sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam?

He answered:

Abu Bakr.

[Collected by Abdullaah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal in as-Sunnah No.1363]

h From Muhammad bin al-Hanafeeyah who said:

I asked my father, who of the people is the best after the

Messenger of Allaah-sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam?

He answered: Abu Bakr.

I asked: Then who?

He said: then Umar.

I feared that he would say Uthmaan, I then said: Then

you?

He answered:

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I am no other than a person from amongst the

Muslims.

[Collected by Bukhari]

i From Shaqeeq who said:

It was said to Ali -Radi Allaahu anhu: Will you not appoint a

leader?

He replied:

The Messenger of Allaah -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam-did not

appoint a leader, so how can I appoint one. If Allaah

Tabaraka wa Taala wants good for the people

then He gathers them as He gathered them after

their Prophet upon the best of them. [i.e. Abu Bakr]

[Collected by Ibn Abi Aassim in as-Sunnah 1221]

j From Sufyan at-Thawri who said:

Whoever claims that Ali -Radi Allaahu anhu- was more

deserving of ruler ship than Abu Bakr and Umar, then

he has claimed that Abu Bakr was wrong, likewise

Umar, the Muhajiroon, and the Ansaar. I hold the

opinion that this persons good actions will not rise

up to the heavens (not accepted by Allaah), if he

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holds this view.

[Collected by Abu Dawood & Albaani said it is Saheeh al-Isnaad although it is

disconnected. No.4387]

k From Abdullaah bin Umar who said:

We used to say while the Messenger of Allaah

-sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam- was alive: The best of the

Ummah of the Prophet after the Prophet is Abu Bakr,

then Umar, then Uthmaan -Radi Allaahu anhum ajmaeen.

[Collected by Abu Dawood, Ibn Abi Aassim in as-Sunnah & Abdullaah bin Ahmad in

as-Sunnah, Albaani said its Isnad is Saheeh]

l From Ibn Umar -Radi Allaahu anhu- who said:

During the time of the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam-

we would not equate anyone along with Abu Bakr,

then Umar, then Uthmaan then we would leave the

Companions of the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam- and

not choose a preference between them.[Collected by Bukhari]

m From Shaafiee who said:

The Companions and their followers are gathered

upon the excellence and precedence of Abu Bakr,

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then Umar, then Uthmaan, then Ali.

[al-Itiqaad by Bayhaqi]

n Imam Dhahabi said:

The scholars of the Sunnah are agreed that the best

of the Companions are the ten who had been

testified with entering Paradise. The best of those

ten were Abu Bakr, then Umar bin al-Khattab, then

Uthmaan bin Affan, then Ali bin Abi Taalib -Radi Allaahu

anhum ajmaeen- and no one doubts that except an

innovator, a hypocrite, or a filthy person.

[al-Kabair by Dhahabi]

[Taken from the book: The Life of the Greatest Man After the Prophets &

Messengers: Abu Bakr as-Siddeeq p.110 113]

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