Hadith 186

their wealth was not permissible for him (to take back from them)’. Then Ali-asws turned towards the people and said: ‘It is strange that the people are seeing the Sunnah of their Prophet-saww being altered and replaced by other things, one by one, and door by door (part by part), but they are happy with it and do not deny them, but instead they get angry on his behalf at the one who finds faults with him and denies him (instead). Then, very soon people will come after us who will follow his innovations, and his injustices, and his new things, and will take his new things as ‘Sunnah’ and make it to be their religion, in order to be close to Allah-azwj by these. For example – He (Umar) transferred the ‘Maqaam-e-Ibrahim-as’ from the place where it was placed by Rasool-Allah-saww to the place which it used to be in the era of ignorance, where Rasool-Allah-saww had moved it from (upon conquering Mecca). And with regards to him changing the Sa’a of Rasool-Allah-saww and his-saww Mudd, and in both of them is an obligation and a Sunnah. So, he did not increase anything except for evil, because the poor – with regards to their expiations of the oath and the ‘Zihaar’ – by both of these they give what is obligatory for them. And Rasool-Allah-saww has said: ‘O Allah-azwj, Bless for us with regards for our Mudd and our Sa’a! ’ They did not place any obstructions between him and that, but they were pleased with it and accepted what he did. He (Umar), along with his companion (Abu Bakr), captured Fadak, and it was in the hand (control) of Fatima-asws. She-asws had consumed from its yield in the era of the Prophet-saww. They asked her-asws for proof for that which was already in her-asws hands, and neither did they ratify her-asws nor Umm Ayman-ra (Bibi Fizza). And he knew with conviction – just as we-asws know – that it was in her-asws hands. And it was not permissible for him to ask her-asws for proof for that which was already in her-asws hands, or for him to hurl accusations at her-asws. Then the people beautified that and praised him for it and said, ‘But he did that due to his piety and virtue’. Then they beautified the ugly deeds of them both as being fair and equitable. They said, ‘We think that Fatima-asws did not say except for the truth, and that Ali-asws did not testify except with the truth, and had there been with Umm Ayman another woman (to testify), we would have given it to her-asws’. They both gained credibility by that among the ignorant people, and what are these two, and who made these two to be rulers, so they should be followed or prevented? ’ But the community got involved with the two of them and entered themselves into that in which they had no right for them both, and both of them did not have any knowledge about it. And (Syeda) Fatima-asws had said to them both – when he wanted to take it (Fadak) away from her-asws, and it was in her-asws hands: ‘Is this not in my-asws hands and my-asws representative regarding