IMPORTANT: Decisive Fact from History which alone is sufficient to destroy all the fabrications of Shias. Praise be to Allah, Though we have already destroyed all the deceptions of religious deceivers which were based on either fabricated narrations or deceptive interpretations given to narrations. But now we are going to present before our readers a historical FACT which is self sufficient to destroy and bury all the deceptions of shias in just one Knock. If seen from a correct perspective then it quite smoothly establishes that Prophet(saw) had never appointed any Caliph to succeed after him. Thus all those fabrications or misinterpretations, whether present in books of Ahlesunnah or Shias goes into trash. We request all the truthseekers to ponder over this fact in an unbiased manner.
The occurrence of incident of Saqifah itself is the irrefutable proof that Prophet(saw) had never appointed any Caliph in particular to succeed after him.
Let us show you the relevant things that occurred in saqifah in a nutshell, before raising some thought provoking points. The incident of Saqifah in detail can be read from this article. click here]
We know that most of Ansar and Mujahireen were in strong disagreement regarding the issue that who is going to be the Caliph after Prophet(Saw). And both parties wanted that the Caliph should be from their group. Thus we read that:
(The) Ansar said: “In case they reject our Caliph, we shall drive them out from Al-Medinah at the point of our swords.” However, the few Muhajirs in the assembly protested against this attitude and this led to a dispute and disorder of a serious nature and a war between the Muhajirs and Ansars seemed possible. When the situation took this ugly turn, Mughirah ibn Shubah left the trouble spot and came to the Prophet’s Mosque to relate what was going on in Saqifah Banu Sa’idah. (Tareekh Al-Islam, Vol.1, p.273-274)
Saad ibn Ubaadah (رضّى الله عنه) conveyed the following message to his fellow Ansar stating: “O Company of the Ansar! You have precedence in religion and merit in Islam that no other tribe of the Arabs can claim. Muhammad remained ten-odd years in his tribe, calling them to worship the Merciful and to cast off idols and graven images, but only a few men of his tribe believed in him, and they were able neither to protect the Apostle of Allah, nor to render his religion strong, nor to divert from themselves the oppression that befell them all. “Until, when He intended excellence for you (O Ansar); He sent nobility to you and distinguished you with grace. Thus Allah bestowed upon you faith in Him and in His Apostle, and protection for him and his companions, and strength for him and his faith, and Jihad against his enemies. You (O Ansar) were the most severe people against his enemies who were not from among you, so that the Arabs became upright in Allah’s Cause, willingly or unwillingly…through you (O Ansar) Allah made great slaughter (of the infidels) in the earth for His Apostle, and by your swords (O Ansar) the Arabs were abased for him. When Allah took (the Prophet) to Himself, he was pleased with you (O Ansar) and consoled by you. “So keep control of this matter (i.e. the Caliphate) to yourselves, to the exclusion of others, for it is yours and yours alone.” (The History of al-Tabari, Vol.10, p.2)
But the Quraish disagreed over this, that is why Abu Bakr (رضّى الله عنه) said: ‘O Ansar! You deserve all (the qualities that you have attributed to yourselves, but this question (of Caliphate) is only for the Quraish as they are the best of the Arabs as regards descent and home, and I am pleased to suggest that you choose either of these two men(Umar and Abu Ubaidah), so take the oath of allegiance to either of them as you wish.” (Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 82, Number 817)
The Ansar made their counter-offer, saying:“O Quraish. There should be one ruler from us and one from you.”(Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 82, Number 817)
Then the Ansars and Muhajirs fell into argumentation, and then Abu Bakr (رضّى الله عنه) said:“O Saad (ibn Ubaadah)! You know very well that the Prophet had said in your presence that the Quraish shall be given the Caliphate because the noble among the Arab (masses) follow their (Quraish) nobles and their ignobles follow their (Quraish) ignobles.”(Musnad Ahmad, vol. 1, p.5)
Finally, the Ansar assented and said:“What you say is correct: we are your advisors and you are our rulers.” (Musnad Ahmad, Vol.1, p.5)
Shaykh al-Albani in his Silsilah al-Ahadith al-Sahihah, Vol. 3, p. 146, Number 1156 records that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said:
قريش ولاة هذا الأمر , فبر الناس تبع لبرهم و فاجرهم تبع لفاجرهم
Quraysh are the possessors of this affair (i.e the caliphate). The pious ones among mankind will follow the pious ones of Quraysh while the evil ones among mankind will follow the evil ones among Quraysh.
This Hadith was reported by Abubakr(ra) at Saqifah and this is what happened after Abubakr narrated it:
فقال له سعد : صدقت , نحن الوزراء و أنتم الأمراء
Sa’d said to him (Abubakr): “You have said the truth. We (Ansar) are the ministers while you (Quraysh) are the rulers**.**[Shaykh al-Albani grades the whole report as Sahih.]
So let us bring before you some very important points from the above short summary of Saqifah. And we request all of our esteemed readers to PAY ATTENTION on these points and think about them in an unbiased manner:
1. If supposedly as the shias claim that Ali(ra) was made caliph before death of Prophet(saw), then why didn’t 99% of companions of Prophet(Saw) , didn’t understand this declaration to be appointment of caliph?
If the shias claim that they did that purposely to gain power, then the first thing that should come in the mind is that why would these people who risked their life to follow Prophet(saw), left their homes, land, wealth, etc for following Prophet(saw) would do so? These were the people who followed the prophet(saw) when no one knew that one day they were going to get leadership over Arabia, yet they risked lives just to follow Prophet(Saw).
Moreover people who are aware of the characteristics of companions of Prophet(saw) which are outlined in Quran , they could never raise such foolish arguments. For example read this verse of Quran: (It is) for the poor who fled their homes and their possessions, seeking grace of Allah and (His) pleasure, and assisting Allah and His Messenger: these it is that are the truthful. And those who made their abode in the city and in the faith before them love those who have fled to them, and do not find in their hearts a need of what they are given, and prefer (them) before themselves though poverty may afflict them, and whoever is preserved from the niggardliness of his soul, these it is that are the successful ones.(59: 8-9). More can be read here]
Thus its not possible that 99% of Companions of Prophet would have done so, these non-sensical and absurd arguments could only be expected from the brainless shias because they are the biggest enemies of Islam.
2. If we read arguments raised by Ansar and Muhajireen, we will find that both of the groups were arguing by referring their virtues, their sacrifices for Islam and their SUPPORT AND OBEDIENCE TO PROPHET(SAW), So it would be non-sensical to assume that people who are so much related to Islam and Prophet(saw) that they want to attain a position because of their virtues and deeds would ignore any sort of declaration of prophet(saw) regarding the issue they were arguing.
3. Moreover if we analyze the dispute between Muhajirs and Ansars at Saqifah, we will realize that none of them had any idea of Ali(ra) being already appointed as Caliph, because even when Abubakar(ra) tries to calm down Ansar, he says to them that caliph would be from Quraysh. Interestingly according to shias almost all the companions including the Ansar knew that Ali(ra) was made caliph on ghadeer, yet abubakar(ra) said to them that Caliph should be from Quraysh, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT PROPHET SAID, and when they listened to the command of prophet they didn’t reject it.
Now, if we analyze this logically then, if at all Ansar knew that Ali(ra) was already made caliph BY PROPHET, then nothing would have stopped them from making Ali(ra) caliph because, they stepped back from their demand that caliph should be from Ansar because they were made aware of the command of Prophet(saw). So respected readers, just think that why would such people leave their demand because of saying of prophet and on other hand negate other command of Prophet regarding same issue?
**Let us put this in other way, that why would Ansar drop their claim, which they were willing to take by sword just because of command of Prophet that caliph would be from Quraysh , BUT on the other hand reject the command of Prophet(saw), that Ali(ra) was to be the Caliph over muslims?
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4. And why would they agree on the Caliphate of Abubakar(ra)? Because they didn’t get the Caliphate since they were made aware of the command of Prophet that Caliph should be from Quraysh by Abubakr(ra). So why would they allow Abubakar to become Caliph if at all Ali(ra) was ALREADY declared as Caliph by Prophet.
Infact they would have argued with Abubakar(ra) that , if he is showing them the mirror to follow command of Prophet(saw), then why isn’t he doing the same OR they would have refuted Abubakr(ra) by saying that when you are not following the command of Prophet(Saw) regarding taking Ali(ra) as Caliph then you have no right to stop us from demanding Caliphate.
5. When Ansar wanted to take Caliphate even with the force of sword dropped the idea just because of command of Prophet(saw), then its not possible that such people have let anyone reject the command of Prophet(saw) regarding the issue of Caliphate, if at all Ali(ra) was made Caliph by Prophet(saw). They would have again raised the swords to follow the command of Prophet(saw), and would have demanded to make Ali(ra) as Caliph and nothing could have stopped them from doing so. But nothing as such occurred, which proves that Prophet(saw) had never appointed a Caliph to succeed after him.
] and his respected father Imam Baqar (ra).