Sahaba - The Blessed

the mission. ’Uthmân has many kinsfolk there. They will protect
him.” Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ wellcomed Hadrat
’Umar’s suggestion, let alone taking exception to his apparent
objection. So Hadrat ’Uthmân was sent to Mekka. There is many
another example showing Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ concessions to the ijtihâds of his Sahâba. He stated, for
instance: “Allâhu ta’âlâ has placed the right word into ’Umar’s
tongue.”]
In his final illness, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’
asked for paper to write some pieces of advice for his
Companions. The Ashâb-i-kirâm ‘alaihim-ur-ridwân’ did not
agree on whether they should bring some paper. Some of them
said they should do so, while others were of the opinion that they
should not. Hadrat ’Umar-ul-Fârûq ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was
among the latter group. He said, “The Book of Allah will suffice
for us.” Some people attack him on account of that event. They
utter the most vulgar invectives unreservedly. Indeed, they do not
have the right to criticize. For, Hadrat ’Umar knew that the Wahy
(revelation of the Qur’ân al-kerîm) had already come to an end,
that Allâhu ta’âlâ had already completed the declaration of His
commandments, and that ijtihâd was the only source for deriving
new religious information. What our master, the Prophet ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, wanted to do was to write what he
found by way of ijtihâd at that moment. The second âyat of Hashr
sûra purports: “... Take warning, then, O ye with eyes (to see)!”
(59-2). This âyat-i-kerîma commands those scholars who have
attained the grade of ijtihâd to do ijtihâd. All the Ashâb-i-kirâm
were mujtahids. They, too, were quite capable of the skill of
ijtihâd needed for the pieces of information which the blessed
Prophet meant to write at that moment. Another motive which
induced Hadrat ’Umar’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ apparently negative
attitude was his anxiety not to let our Prophet “sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
wa sallam’ bother himself with that toil at a time when his agonies
were already on the increase. Because he loved the Messenger of
Allah very much, he said that the Book of Allah would suffice for
them, lest they should tire the Messenger of Allah for something
whose solution would be possible with the Sahâba’s ijtihâd. He
meant to say that the Qur’ân al-kerîm was a source sufficient for
them to derive the needed information by way of ijtihâd, since
information based on ijtihâd is derived by mujtahids from the
Qur’ân al-kerîm. It can be inferred from his literal expression,
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