Sahaba - The Blessed

with their tongues what is not in their hearts. ...” (48-11) He inverts
this âyat-i-kerîma into a sheer vilification of Hadrat Abû Bakr.
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ foretold the appearing of
heretics in his various hadîth-i-sherîfs. He stated in one of those
hadîth-i-sherîfs: “Of all those people who carry Muslim names, the
person I fear most is he who changes the meanings in the Qur’ân
al-kerîm.” On another occasion he stated: “They will be taxing the
Muslims with (the iniquities censured in) the âyat-i-kerîmas which
were intended for (censuring) the disbelievers.” It is written in all
the literature of siyar [1] as well as in books of Tafsîr (explanation of
the Qur’ân al-kerîm) that Abû Bakr Siddîq and ’Umar Fârûq
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’ joined all the Holy Wars, including Badr,
Uhud, Hendek (Trench), Conquest of Mekka, Hunayn, and
Tabuk, and that they always kept around him (in order to learn
from him and to protect him against danger) like moths hovering
around a bright light.
Abû Bakr ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was commander of some of the
military expeditions. For instance, a company under his
leadership was sent onto the tribe of Fezâra in the blessed month
of Sha’bân in the seventh year of the Hegira. He went there, slew
some of the unbelievers, took others captive and brought them to
Medina.
An important example is given in the following passage which
we borrowed from the book Manâqib-i-Chihâryâr: During the
Holy War of Badr, on the seventeenth day of Ramadân-i-sherîf,
Friday, under the sweltering heat of a July noon the two armies
attacked each other. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wasallam’, Abû
Bakr, ’Umar, Abû Zer, Sa’d and Sa’îd ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum’ were
seated at the commanding post. The Muslim soldiers were in
trouble. The blessed Prophet sent Sa’d and Sa’îd for help. He sent
Abû Zer next, and he was followed by ’Umar. An hour later, Abû
Bakr saw that there was no decrease in the trouble, drew his
sword, and was about to gallop off on his horse, when the blessed
Messenger held him by the hand and said, “Stay with me, O Abâ
Bakr! Seeing your face relieves me of all sorts of suffering that
come to my body and heart. Your company gives strength to my
heart.”
[1] Literature that deals with facts about our blessed Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’, his biography, his beautiful moral qualities, his
utterances, which are called hadîth-i-sherîf, etc.
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