Hadith 151

ere remained Umar and with him was a group. They brought Ali-asws out and went with him-asws to Abu Bakr. They said, ‘Pledge allegiance! ’ He-asws said: ‘If I-asws don’t do it, then what? ’ They said, ‘Then by Allah-azwj, Who there is no god except He-azwj, we will strike off your-asws neck’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then you would be killing a servant of Allah-azwj and brother-asws of His-azwj Rasool-saww’. Umar said, ‘As for a servant of Allah-azwj, so yes, and as for brother-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww, so no! ’ And Abu Bakr was silent, not speaking’. Umar said to him, ‘Will you not order regarding him-asws with your order? ’ He said, ‘I will not force him-asws upon something for as long as Fatima-asws is by his-asws side’. Ali-asws adhered to the grave of Rasool-Allah-saww, shrieking, wailing, and calling out: ‘O ‘Son of my mother! Surely the people weakened me and they almost killed me, [7: 150]’. Umar said to Abu Bakr, ‘Come with us to (Syeda) Fatima-asws for we have angered her-asws’. They went together and sought permission to see (Syeda) Fatima-asws. But she-asws did not permit them. They came to Ali-asws and spoke to him-asws. He-asws entered them both to see her-asws. When they said in her-asws presence, she-asws turned her-asws face away from them to the wall. They greeted unto her-asws, but she-asws did not return the greeting to them. Abu Bakr spoke, he said, ‘O beloved of Rasool-Allah-saww! The kinship of Rasool-Allah-saww is more beloved to me in the origin than my own kinship, and you-asws more beloved to me than my daughter Ayesha, and on the day your-asws father-saww passed away, I loved to have died and not remain after him-asws. Don’t you-asws see me? I do recognise your-asws merit, and your-asws nobility, and I prevented your-asws right and your-asws inheritance from Rasool-Allah-azwj only because I heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘We-asws community of Prophets-as, do not leave inheritance, and whatever we-as leave, it is charity’. She-asws said: ‘What are both your views if I-asws were to narrate to you a Hadeeth from Rasool-Allah-saww, will you recognise it and listen to it? ’ They said, ‘Yes’. She-asws said: ‘We-asws adjure you both with Allah-azwj! Did you not hear from Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘Pleasure of Fatima-asws is from my-saww pleasure and wrath of Fatima-asws is from my-saww wrath, and one who loves my-saww daughter-asws Fatima-asws, so he has loved me-saww, and one who pleases Fatima-asws, so he has pleased me-saww, and one who angers Fatima-asws, so he has angered me-saww? ’
They said, ‘Yes, we have heard it from Rasool-Allah-saww’. She-asws said: ‘I-asws hereby keep Allah-azwj as Witness and His-azwj Angels, you have both angered me-asws and have not pleased me, and when I-asws meet the Prophet-saww I-asws will complain to him of you both! ’
Abu Bakr said, ‘I seek Refuge with Allah-azwj from His-azwj Wrath and your-asws wrath, O Fatima-asws’. Then Abu Bakr wailed crying, almost losing his soul, and she-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! I-saww will supplicate to Allah-azwj against you every Salat I-asws pray! ’
Then he went out crying, and the people gathered to him. He said to them, ‘Every man from you spent last night hugging his wife, happy with his wife, and you left me and what I am in. There is no need for me regarding your allegiances. Dismiss my allegiance’. They said, ‘O caliph of Rasool-Allah-saww! This command cannot stand straight, and you are most knowing of us with that. If th