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Subject: Did the Messenger bequeath the
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mohsin11 7.12.10 - 02:15pm
Did the Messenger (peace be upon him) bequeath the caliphate to Ali?
Answered by shaykh bin Baz:
This saying is known to be claimed by only one Muslim sect, namely the Shiah (Shiites), and it is a baseless saying which has no origin in authentic hadiths of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). There are however many proofs which maintain that the successor after the Prophet (peace be upon him) was to be Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him). This was also maintained by all other Companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him). However, he (peace be upon him) did not explicitly recommend this or issue a conclusive recommendation on it. Yet, he gave orders that indicate it, such as when he ordered Abu Bakr to lead the people in prayer at the time he (peace be upon him) was sick. Besides, when the matter of succession was mentioned to him, he (peace be upon him) said: Allah and the Muminun (believers) deny anyone (be successor) except Abu Bakr And for this reason, the Companions pledged allegiance to him (may Allah be pleased with him) after the death of the Prophet (peace be upon him), including Aly (may Allah be pleased with him). They unanimously agreed that Abu Bakr was the best of them. It was authentically reported in the Hadith narrated by Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) used to say during the life of the Prophet (peace be upon him): The best of people in this Ummah (nation) after its Prophet is Abu Bakr, then Umar, then Uthman And the Prophet (peace be upon him) agreed to this. There are successive narrations from Aly (may Allah be pleased with him) that he used to say: The best of people in this Ummah after its Prophet is Abu Bakr, then Umar. He (may Allah be pleased with him) would also say, No one would give me preference over them except that I would whip him, and he never referred to himself as the best of the Ummah or that the Messenger (peace be upon him) recommended him for succession. In addition, he never claimed that the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) wronged him or usurp his rights. On the other hand, upon the death of Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her), he pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq a second time in confirmation of the first pledge, to show the people that he sided with the Muslim community and that he had no reluctance to pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr, (may Allah be pleased with them all). Then, when Umar, being stabbed, left the issue of nomination of a successor to be decided through Shura (consultation) among six of the ten heaven-bound Companions, including Aly (may Allah be pleased with him). The latter, however, did not disapprove of what was done by Umar, neither during his life nor after his death. Furthermore, he never said that he was more worthy of it than them all. How then can anyone fabricate lies against the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and say that he recommended that Aly be a successor to him. Even Aly himself did not claim that for himself, nor did any of the Companions. Rather, they all agreed to the validity of having as successors Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman. And this was acknowledged by Aly (may Allah be pleased with him), who cooperated with them all in Jihad ( *
