Hadith 32

(The book) ‘Amaali’ of sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Zakariya, from Ahmad Bin Ubeydullah, from Al Rabie Bin Sayyar, from Al Amsh, from Salim Bin Abu Al Ja’d, raising it to Abu Zarr-ra – similar to it’. [24]
Clarification
I (Majlisi) say, ‘The lords (authors) of the Seerah and the narrators of Ahadeeth from the adversaries have said, ‘When Abu Lulu stabbed Umar Bin Al-Khattab, and he came to know that his days have expired and his death is near, one of his companions said to him, ‘If you could choose a caliph, O commander of the faithful! ’
He said, ‘If Au Ubeydah had been alive, I would have chosen him as caliph, and would have said to my Lord-azwj if He-azwj Asks me, ‘I heard Your-azwj Prophet-saww saying: ‘Abu Ubeyda is a trustee of this community’’. And if Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa had been alive, I would have chosen him as caliph, and said to my Lord-azwj if He-azwj Asks me, ‘Saalm was of intense love for Allah-azwj’. A man said to him, ‘Make Abdullah Bin Umar the ruler’. He said, ‘May Allah-azwj Fight you! By Allah-azwj! Allah-azwj does not Want this! How can I choose a man who is unable from divorcing his wife? ! ’’
It is reported by Ibn Al-Aseer in (the book) ‘Al-Kaamil’, and Al-Tabar from his elders by reliable ways, then (Umar) said, ‘There is no need for Umar regarding your caliphate. I have not praise for it, so I would desire for it regarding anyone of my family members. If it was good, then we have attained from it, and if it was evil, so it has been turned away from us’. One of the family members of Umar anticipated, and asked about the command of the community of Muhammad-saww. The people came out and referred to him. They said to him, ‘If you could make a pact’. He said, ‘I had decided after my words, that the master of your affairs should be a man who is your free one and he would carry you upon the truth’ – and gestured towards Ali-asws. ‘I (Umar) was overcome with unconsciousness, and I saw a man enter the Paradise, and he picked every branch and fruit and pressed it to him, and it came to be under him. So, I feared from carrying it (caliphate), alive and dead, and knew that Allah-azwj would Cause his matter to overcome’. Then he (Umar) said, ‘Upon you all is with the group, those Rasool-Allah-saww had said for them that they would be from the people of Paradise, and he-saww passed away and was pleased from these six from Qureys – Ali-asws, and Usman, and Talha, and Al-Zubeyr, and Sa’ad Bin Abi Waqas, and Abdul Rahman Bin Awf, and I have view that I should make it to be a consultation between them in order to choose for themselves’. Then he (Umar) said, ‘If I choose a caliph, then I shall choose one who is better than me, and I leave it, so I have left one who is bette