Sahaba - The Blessed

THE TWO MOST BELOVED
DARLINGS of MUSLIMS
(Hadrat Abû Bakr and Hadrat ’Umar)
The following treatise is a translation from Qurrat-ul-’aynayn
fî-tafdîl-ish-shaikhayn, a book written in the Fârisî language by the
great Islamic scholar Shâh Waliyyullah Dahlawî ‘rahmatullâhi
ta’âlâ ’aleyh’. The book, of two hundred and seventy pages, was
printed in Peshâwar in 1310 [1892 A.D.].
The book Qurrat-ul-’aynayn consists of an introduction and
two chapters. The introduction enlarges on the superiorities of the
Shaikhayn (Hadrat Abû Bakr and Hadrat ’Umar) and presents an
argument based on authentic reports and reasoning. The first
chapter answers the writings in the book Tajrîd by Nasîraddîn
Tûsî, a Shiite scholar. Muhammad Nasîraddîn Tûsî was born in the
city of Tus in 597 [1201 A.D.], and passed away in Baghdâd in 676
[1274 A.D.]. The second chapter confutes the slanders and lies
whereby some malicious and heretical people try to traduce the
Shaikhayn.
The Shaikhayn, i.e. Hadrat Abû Bakr and Hadrat ’Umar
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’, are the highest ones of the Ashâb-ikirâm.
Concomitant to a recent increase in the number of holders
of bid’at, i.e. heretics, doubts have been being voiced concerning
their superiority. So dreadful is the decaying trend that the correct
tenets of belief taught by the Salaf as-sâlihîn (the early Islamic
scholars) are being forgotten gradually. Indeed, it is an open fact
based both on narrations and on logic that the Shaikhayn are the
highest. Narrations come to us through three different courses.
Allâhu ta’âlâ promised to His beloved Prophet in the fifty-fifth
âyat of Nûr sûra that He would give him believing and pious
Khalîfas and reinforce the Islamic religion through those Khalîfas.
This fact is confirmed by the dreams which the Messenger of Allah
had as well as by the dreams that the Ashâb-i-kirâm had and
which the Messenger of Allah explained. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’ stated several times both directly and indirectly
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