Hadith 144

valry to him to be in charge of the command. So, Al-Aws, all of them pledged allegiance when Aseyd had pledged. And Sa’ad Bin Ubada was carried away, and he was ill, and entered into his house, and he refused from the allegiance during that day, and during what was after it, and Umar wanted to force him upon it, and he gestured to him not to do so, and he will not pledge until he is killed, and he will not be killed until his family is killed, and his family would not be killed until Al-Khazraj would be killed, all of them, and if Al-Khazraj go to war, Al-Aws would be with them, and the matter would be spoilt. So they left him. He neither used to pray with their Salat, nor gather with their group, nor fulfil any needs with the, and if he had found supporters he would have struck them. And he did not cease to be like that until Abu Bakr died. Then he met Umar during his caliphate, and he was upon a horse and Umar was upon a camel. Umar said to him, ‘Far be it, O Sa’ad! ’ Sa’ad said, ‘Far be it, O Umar! ’ He said, ‘You are a companions of the one you are a companion of? ’ He said, ‘Yes, I am like that’. Then he said to Umar, ‘By Allah-azwj! No one has been a neighbour to me who is more hateful to me than you as a neighbour’. Umar said, ‘Surely the one who dislikes a neighbour, transfers away from him’. Sa’ad said, ‘I wish I can vacate it for you immediately to the vicinity of one who is more beloved to me as a neighbour than you are, and from your companions’. Sa’ad did not live after that except a little until he went out to Syria and died therein. And he did not pledge allegiance to anyone, neither to Abu Bakr, nor to Umar, nor to anyone else. He (the narrator) said, ‘And the people became a lot to Abu Bakr and most of the Muslims pledged allegiance to him during that day, and the Clan of Hashim-asws gathered to the house of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and with them was Al-Zubeyr, and he used to count himself as a man from the Clan of Hashim-asws. Ali-asws was saying: ‘Al-Zubeyr did not cease to be from us, People-asws of the Household until his children grew up, and they left from us-asws’. And the clan of Umayya gathered to Usman Bin Affan, and the clan of Zuhra gathered to Sa’ad and Abdul Rahman. Umar and Abu Ubeyda came, and he said, ‘What is the matter I see you in a circle? Arise and pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr, so the people have pledged allegiance to him, and the helpers have (also) pledged allegiance to him’. Usman and the ones with him stood up, and Sa’ad and Abdul Rahman and the ones with them stood up and pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr. And Umar went and with him was a group, to the house of (Syeda) Fatima-asws, with them was Aseyd Bin Huzeyr and Salama Bin Aslam. He said to them, ‘Go and pledge allegiance’, but they refused to him, and Al-Zubeyr came out with his sword. Umar said, ‘Upon you is (to deal with) the dog’. Salama Bin Aslam leapt upon him and seized the sword from his hand and hit the wall with it. Then they went with him and with Ali-asws, and with them were the Clan of Hashim-