Ali Ibn Abi Talib - Volume 1 of 2

226 'Ali ibn Abi Ttlib at the time of the Rightly Guided Caliphs
'My heirs should not share out any dinar that I leave behind.
Whatever I have left, after the maintenance of my wives and the
remuneration of my agent, is charity."'49
Ahu Bakr as-Sideeq (4) followed these instructions with
regard to F2timah (I&), in obedience to the words of the Prophet
(g). Hence Ahu B& (&) said: "I am not going to leave anything
that the Messenger of Allah (g) used to do, hut I will do it too."50
And he said: "By Allah, I will not leave anything that I saw the
Messenger of Allah do, but I will do it too."51
F2cirnah (%) stopped disputing with him after he quoted this
hadith and explained the matter to her. This is evidence that she
accepted the truth of what he said. Ibn ~uta~bah" said: "As for the
dispute of F2timah (I&) with Abu Bakr (may AUah he pleased with
them both) concernin; the inheritance of the Prophet (g), this was
not something strange, because she did not know what the Messenger
of Allah (g) had said, and she thought that she would inherit from
him as children inherit from their fathers. When Ahu Bakr told her
what the Prophet had said, she gave up her demand."53
The Riifidis went to extremes with regard to the story of the
inheritance of the Prophet (s). They drifted away from the truth,
turning away from and ignoring the sound reports stating that he (g)
was not to be inherited from. They made it one of the foundations of
the differences between the Companions and Ah1 al-Bayt (may Allah
be pleased with them all) and an extension of the issue of the
caliphate. They accused the Companions (especially Ahu Bakr as-
Sideeq and 'Umar al-Farooq) of mistreating and being unfair to Ahl
al-Bayt. They alleged that these two seized the caliphate by force
from Ah1 al-Bayt and then confiscated their wealth and all of the
financial rights that Allah (s) had enjoined for them. The R%$s
regard the issue of Fadak and denying F2timah (I$&) her inheritance
as one of the most serious issues in which the ~o&&inions conspired