Hadith 240

And beneath the Hadeeth of Sa’ad Bin Abdullah, ‘And when he said, ‘Inform me about Al-Siddique (Abu Bakr) and Al-Farouq (Umar), did they both become Muslims willingly or unwillingly? ’ Why, why did you not say to him, ‘But they both became Muslims willingly, because they used to gather with the Jews and inform them about what they were finding to be in the Torah and rest of the previous Books, speaking with the future events, from a situation to a situation from the story of Muhammad-saww and from the consequences of his-saww affairs. The Jews used to mention that Muhammad-saww would be overcoming upon the Arabs just as Bakht Nasar had overcome upon the children of Israel, and there is no escape for it from the victory with the Arabs just as Bakht Nasar had been victorious with the children of Israel, apart from that he had been a liar in his claim. They both came to Muhammad-saww and assisted him-saww upon the word that there is no god except Allah-azwj, and pledged allegiance to him-saww coveting regarding what he-saww would give them both from the aspect of the governance of a city when his-saww affairs had been established and his-saww situation had been stabilised. When they despaired from that, they veiled themselves and ascended Al-Aqaba along with their like from the hypocrites, upon killing him-saww. But Allah-azwj Repelled their plots and Returned them with their anger not having achieved anything good, just as Talha and Al-Zubeyr had come to Ali-asws and pledged allegiance to him-asws, and each one of them coveted to be given from him-asws the governance of a city. When they both despaired, they broke his-asws allegiance and battled against him-asws. Allah-azwj Caused each one of them to die a death of their like ones from the breakers’’. [206]