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sight and hearing.” He stated in another hadîth-i-sherîf, “Allâhu
ta’âlâ has bestowed four viziers on me. Two of them, Abû Bekr
and ’Umar, are on the earth. The other two, Jebrâîl and Mikâîl, are
in heaven.” If having not been appointed as Emîr frequently had
been indicative of inaptitude for being an Imâm, hadrat Hasan and
Huseyn would not have qualified as Imâms. Hadrat Alî never sent
them away on any expeditions or wars during his caliphate. On the
other hand, he would frequently appoint their paternal brother
Muhammad bin Hanafiyya as Emîr. When Muhammad was asked
the reason for this he said, “They are like my father’s eyes. I am
like his hands and feet.”
Muhammad bin Uqayl bin Ebî Tâlib relates: One day my
(paternal) uncle hadrat Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ said as he was
making a (speech called) khutba, “O Muslims! Who is the bravest
one among the Sahâba?” “O Emîr al-mu’minîn! It is you,” was my
answer. “No,” he said. “Abû Bekr as-Siddîq is the bravest one
among us. During the Holy War of Bedr we made a brushwood
shelter for Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’. We were
asking one another which one of us was to stand guard in front of
the shelter to protect it against the unbelievers’ attacks, when Abû
Bekr sprang up in such alacrity as to leave hardly any time for
anyone else to volunteer, drew his sword, and began to beat
around the shelter. The enemy concentrated its attacks on the
shelter. Yet Abû Bekr would not let any unbeliever approach the
shelter, killing or wounding anyone who would try to do so.”
On the other hand, with the expression, “struggling to bring
others into subjection,” he casts an allusion to hadrat ’Umar.
However, hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ was influential in
hadrat Abû Bekr’s becoming Khalîfa not by fighting but owing to
his effective speech. Thus he protected Muslims against great
catastrophic events. Later, upon hadrat Abû Bekr’s will and with
the people’s unanimous vote, he became Khalîfa despite his
disinclination.
3- “One of them was hearing hadrat Alî, hadrat Hasan, hadrat
Huseyn and Salmân Fârisî as witnesses for the case of (the date
orchard called) Fedek, and then seizing the orchard from hadrat
Fâtimat-uz-Zehrâ, discrediting the testimonies given by the Ahl-i-
Bayt,” he says.
These remarks are intended to attack hadrat Abû Bekr ‘radiy-
Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’. Would it be possible to cover the sun with
mud? See below how elegantly the book Tuhfa confutes this
slanderous fabrication and reproaches Hurûfîs:
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