Hadith 142

And Ibn Al-Aseer in (the book) ‘Al-Kamil’ – When Rasool-Allah-saww passed away, the Helpers gathered in the shed of the clan of Saaida in order to pledge allegiance of Sa’ad Bin Ubada. That reached Abu Bakr, and he came to them, and with him were Umar and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jaffah. He said, ‘What is this? ’ They said, ‘There should be a ruler from us and a ruler from you’. Abu Bakr said, ‘From us should be the rulers and from you the minsters’. Then Abu Bakr said, ‘I agree to you with one of these two men – Umar and Abu Ubeyda, trustee of this community’. Umar said, ‘Whichever of you is good himself that he be a replacement, advance the one the Prophet-saww advance’. So Umar pledge allegiance to him (Abu Bakr) and the people pledged. The Helpers, or some of them said, ‘We will not pledge allegiance to except Ali-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Ali-asws, and the Clan of Hashim-asws, and Al-Zubeyr, and Talha stayed behind from the allegiance. Al-Zubeyr said, ‘I will not sheathe my sword until Ali-asws is pledged allegiance to’. Umar said, ‘Seize his sword and strike the rock with it’. Then Umar came to them and seized them for the allegiance’. Then he mentioned what has passed from the story of Abu Sufyan and Al-Abbas. Then, a lengthy Hadeeth is reported from Ibn Abbas, from Abdul Rahman Bin Awf, and he continued it up to he said, ‘When Umar returned from the Hajj to Al-Medina, he sat upon the pulpit and said, ‘It has reached me that there is a speaker from you saying, ‘If the amir al-momineen (Umar) were to die, he will pledge allegiance to so and so’. Do not be deceived by a man if he says that the allegiance pledged to Abu Bakr was a slip. It has been like that but Allah-azwj Saved us from its evil. And there isn’t anyone from your necks are cut to him like Abu Bakr, and he was appropriate when Rasool-Allah-saww expired, and that Ali-asws and Al-Zubeyr, and the ones with them had stayed back from us in the house of (Syeda) Fatima-asws, and Helpers stayed back from us, and the Emigrants gathered to Abu Bakr’ – and he continued the story of Al-Saqeefa approximate to what has passed’. Then it is reported from Abu Amra Al-Ansari, similar to what I brought from the summarisation of Al-Shaqy, and he continued the speech up to he said, ‘And Al-Zuhry said, ‘There remain Ali-asws, and the clan of Hashim-asws, and Al-Zubeyr, for six months, not pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr, until (Syeda) Fatima-asws passed away. Then they pledged allegiance to him. When it was the next morning from the allegiance, Abu Bakr sat on the pulpit and the people pledged allegiance to him a general allegiance’’. [59] (Non-Shia source)