Musnad Ahmad — Hadith #44873

Ishaq bin Isa al-Tabbaa told us, Malik bin Anas told us, Ibn Shihab told me, on the authority of Ubayd Allah bin Abdullah bin Utba bin Masoud, that Ibn Abbas told him that Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf had returned to his journey. Ibn Abbas said, and I was reciting to Abd al-Rahman. Ben Awf found me waiting for him, in Mina, during the last Hajj that Omar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, performed. Abdul Rahman ibn Auf: A man came to Omar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, and said: So-and-so said, If Omar had died, may God be pleased with him, I would have pledged allegiance to so-and-so. Then Omar, may God be pleased with him, said, “I will stand in the evening among the people and warn them about these people who want to usurp them. They must do so.” Abdul said. Most Gracious, so I said, O Commander of the Faithful, do not do it, for the season brings together the rabble and mob of people, and it is they who They dominate your gatherings. If you rise among the people, I fear that you will say something that those people will fly away with, but they do not understand it and do not put it in its proper place. But until you approach Medina, it is the home of migration and the Sunnah, and you will find the scholars of the people and their nobles, so you can say what you said with authority. So they help your words and put them in their places. Omar, may God be pleased with him, said: If I bring Medina safe and sound, I will speak to the people about it at the beginning. A place for me to stay. When we came to Medina after Dhul-Hijjah, and it was Friday, spirits hastened the death of the blind man, and I said: By Malik, what did the blind man say that he did not care what time he went out? He did not know the heat or the cold and the like. I found Saeed bin Zaid at The right corner of the pulpit had preceded me, so I sat, his shoes rubbing my knee against his knee, but I did not stand up until Omar, may God be pleased with him, appeared, so when I saw him saying, “Let them say on the evening of this pulpit something that no one had said about him before him.” Sa’id bin Zaid denied that and said, It is impossible for him to say what no one else has said. Then Omar, may God be pleased with him, sat on the pulpit, and when the muezzin remained silent, he rose and praised God. As it is worthy of it. Then he said, “Now then, O people, I am saying something that has been destined for me to say. I do not know. Perhaps it will be in my hands for my sake. Who will He is aware of it and of his mind, let him speak of it wherever his mount has ended, and whoever is not aware of it, it is not permissible for him to lie to me, for God is blessed. And God Almighty sent Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, with the truth and sent down to him the Book, and among the verses of stoning that were revealed to him was the verse of stoning, so we read it and understood it. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, stoned us and we stoned him after him. I fear that if people live for a long time, someone will say no. We find the verse about stoning in the Book of God Almighty, so they go astray by abandoning a duty that God Almighty has sent down. Stoning in the Book of God is a duty imposed on one who commits adultery. If the men and women are chaste, when there is evidence, or a rope, or a confession, behold, and indeed we used to read: No Deviate from your fathers, for it is blasphemy for you to deviate from your fathers. Indeed, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Do not flatter me as I am flattered.” Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him. I am only the servant of God, so say, “Abdullah and His Messenger.” It has reached me that someone among you He says: If Omar, may God be pleased with him, had died, I would have pledged allegiance to so-and-so, so let no one be deceived when he says that the pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, was a simple matter. Indeed, it was like that, except that God Almighty protected it from its evil, and there is not among you today anyone whose necks will be cut off like Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, and it was our news when the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, died that Ali, Al-Zubayr, and whoever was With them, they remained behind in the house of Fatima, may God be pleased with her, the daughter of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and she left behind us. The Ansar were all in Saqifat Bani Sa`idah, and the emigrants gathered to Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, so I said to him, O Abu Bakr Take us to our brothers from the Ansar, and we set out to follow them until we met two righteous men who mentioned to us what had done to the people, so they said: Where do you want, O group of emigrants? I said, “We want these our brothers from the Ansar.” They said, “No, you must not approach them, and settle your affairs.” O community of emigrants, I said, “By God, we will come to them.” So we set off until we came to them in the Saqifah of Banu Sa’idah, and behold, they were They were gathered, and behold, between their backs was a man with a comb, and I said, “Who is this?” They said, “Saad bin Ubadah.” I said, “What is wrong with him?” They said, “Pain.” When we sat down, he got up. Their preacher praised God Almighty for what he deserved and said, “After that, we are supporters of God Almighty and the Islam Battalion.” And you, O community of emigrants, are a group of us, and a group of you has set out, wanting to disgrace us from our origin and isolate us from the matter. Then when I remained silent. I wanted to speak, and I had falsified an article that I liked. I wanted to say it in the hands of Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him. I used to treat him somewhat harshly, but he was more forgiving and more dignified than me, so Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, said, “Behold your messenger,” so I hated to anger him. He was more knowledgeable than me and more honorable, and by God, he did not leave out a word that I liked in my forgery except that he said it in his intuition and better, until he remained silent and said: After that, whatever good you mentioned, you are the people of it, and the Arabs did not know this matter except for this neighborhood of Quraysh, who are the middle of the Arabs in lineage. He turned around, and I had accepted for you one of these two men, whichever one you wished, and he took me by the hand and by the hand of Abu Ubaidah bin al-Jarrah. I did not dislike any of that. He said something different, but by God, if I were to come forward and have my neck be beheaded, that would not bring me closer to a sin more beloved to me than conspiring against a people among whom is Abu A virgin, may God be pleased with him, except that my soul changed at the time of death, and someone from the Ansar said, “I am its itched root and its roots.” What is expected from us is a prince, and from you is a prince, O people of Quraysh. So I said to Malik, “What is the meaning of ‘I am its textured root and its welcomed roots?’” He said as if to say “I was aware of it,” he said, and the confusion increased and voices rose until I feared disagreement, so I said, “Extend your hand, O Abu Bakr.” So he extended his hand, and I pledged allegiance to him, and the emigrants pledged allegiance to him, then the Ansar pledged allegiance to him, and we marched against Saad bin Ubadah, and someone among them said, “You have killed Sa’d, so I said, “May God kill Sa’d,” and Omar, may God be pleased with him, said, “By God, we did not find, in what we were present, anything stronger than pledging allegiance to my father.” Bakr, may God be pleased with him. We feared that if we separated from the people and there was no pledge of allegiance, that they might make a pledge of allegiance after us, then we would either follow them in a way that we do not approve of. Or we disagree with them, which would result in corruption. Whoever pledges allegiance to a prince without consulting the Muslims, there is no pledge of allegiance to him, and no pledge of allegiance to the one who He pledged allegiance to him at the risk of being killed. Malik said, Ibn Shihab told me on the authority of Urwah ibn al-Zubayr that the two men whom Uwaymir ibn Sa’idah and Ma’an bin Adiy. Ibn Shihab said, and Sa’id bin Al-Musayyab told me that the one who said: “I am its itchy stem and its stalk.” Al-Murjab Al-Hubab bin Al-Mundhir.