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(hadrat ‘Uthmân) ordered distribution of property from the Baytul-mâl
to those who deserved payment. His order was carried out.
When it was seen that one thousand dirhams was in excess, he
ordered that this money be used in public services. Zeyd used this
money in repairing the Masjîd-i-Nabawî.
A hadîth-i-sherîf, which exists in the book Meshîhât written by
Hâfiz Ahmad bin Muhammad Abû Tâhir Silafî, a Shâfi’î scholar
who passed away in 576, and which is reported also by Ibni Asâkir
Alî bin Muhammad, states, “Loving Abû Bekr and thanking him
is wâjib for all my Ummat.” Imâm-i-Munâwî also quotes this
hadîth-i-sherîf from Daylamî. It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf, which
exists in the book Wasîla by Hâfiz ’Umar bin Muhammad Erbilî,
“As Allâhu ta’âlâ has made namâz, zakât and fasting farz for you,
so He has made it farz for you to love Âbu Bekr, ’Umar, ’Uthmân
and Alî.” Another hadîth-i-sherîf, which is reported by Abdullah
Ibni Adî and written in Munâwî, states, “Loving Abû Bekr and
’Umar is from îmân. And enmity towards them is being munâfiq.”
According to a report given by Imâm-i-Tirmuzî, a janâza (dead
person ready for interment) was brought to the Messenger of
Allah. He would not perform the namâz of janâza for him, and
said, “This man felt animosity towards ’Uthmân. Therefore,
Allâhu ta’âlâ bears animosity towards him.” The hundred and first
âyat of Tawba sûra purports, “Allah loves the early Believers
among the Muhâjirs and Ansâr and those people who follow them.
And they love Allah. Allah has prepared Gardens of Paradise for
them.” The first three Khalîfas are among the early Believers. And
hadrat Mu’âwiya and Amr Ibni Âs are among those people who
followed them. Those who malign these great Islamic leaders are
opposing the âyat-i-kerîma and the hadîth-i-sherîfs by doing so.
And a person who opposes an âyat-i-kerîma or a hadîth-i-sherîf, in
his turn, will go out of Islam and become a disbeliever. His
claiming to be a Muslim will only betray the fact that he is a
munâfiq or a zindiq.
6- “Another old woman fabricated a story of a lost bracelet,
with an attempt to cover the desert love affair she had had with
Safwân. While doing so, she imposed the cause of divorce on
hadrat Alî. This gave birth to the event of Camel,” he says.
At this point the magazine shamelessly assails hadrat Âisha-i-
Siddîqa ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhâ’, Believers’ mother and
Rasûlullah’s beloved wife. See what hadrat Abd-ul-haqq Dahlawî,
a scholar of Hadîth, says in his book Medârij-un-nubuwwa:
The merits and virtues possessed by Âisha-i-Siddîqa ‘radiy-
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