Hadith 144

can count the like of it, and there isn’t from our opinion the preference upon them, then from us should be a ruler, and from them, a ruler’. Sa’ad Bin Ubada said, ‘This is the first weakness’. And the news came to Umar, so he came to the house of Rasool-Allah-saww and found Abu Bakr in the house, and Ali-asws was (busy) in preparing the funeral Rasool-Allah-saww, and the first one who came to him with the news Ma’an Bin Aday. He grabbed the hand of Umar and said, ‘Arise! ’ Umar said, ‘I am too busy from you’. He said, ‘There is no escape from standing’. So he stood with him. He said to him, ‘This tribe from the Helpers have gather in the shed of the clan of Saaida, with them is Sa’ad Bin Ubada circling around him. You are the hopeful, and your offspring is the hopeful, and then people from their nobles, and I have feared the Fitna, so look, O Umar, what is that you see, and mentioned to your brothers, and let them wrangle for themselves, for I am looking at a door of Fitna to have opened at the moment, unless Allah-azwj Locks it’. Umar was alarmed with severe alarm until he went to Abu Bakr and grabbed his hand and said, ‘Stand up’. Abu Bakr said, ‘I am too busy from you’. Umar said, ‘There is no escape from standing and if Allah-azwj so Desires, we shall return’. Abu Bakr stood with Umar, and he narrated the event to him. Abu Bakr was alarmed with intense alarm and they both went out hurriedly to the shed of the clan of Saaida, and therein were men from the nobles of the Helpers, and with them was Sa’ad Bin Ubada in their midst, and he was ill. Umar intended to speak and praise Abu Bakr and said, ‘I feared that Abu Bakr might be deficient from past of the speech. When Umar began, Abu Bakr refrained him and said, ‘Upon your message, so leave the speech, then you can speak after my speech with whatever comes to you’. Abu Bakr testified, then said, ‘Allah-azwj, Majestic is His-azwj Praise, Sent Muhammad-saww with the guidance and Religion of the truth. He-saww called to and Allah-azwj Seized our hearts and our forelocks to what he-saww had called us to, and we are the community of Emigrants, foremost of the people in professing Islam, and the people followed us in that, and we are the clan of Rasool-Allah-saww, and most extensive of the Arabs in lineage. There isn’t any tribe of the Arabs except and there is a birth for it for Quraysh. And you are helpers of Allah-azwj, and you helped Rasool-Allah-azwj, then you are ministers of Rasool-Allah-saww and our brothers in the Book of Allah-azwj, and our partners in the Religion and in what we used to be in from the goodness. You are the most beloved of the people to us and their most honourable to us, and the most rightful of the people with the pleasure with the Decree of Allah-azwj and the submitters to what Allah-azwj Ushered to your brothers from the Emigrants, and most rightful of the people not to envy them. Thus, you are the ones preferred upon yourselves where the specialisation is, and most rightful of the people not to become pouncing upon this comman