Amr b. al-'As reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) sent him in command of the army despatched to Dhat-as-Salasil. When 'Amr b. al-'As came back to the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) he said: Who amongst people are dearest to you? He said: A'isha. He then said: Who amongst men? He said: Her father, and I said: And who next? He said: Umar. He then enumerated some other men.
Read More..Ibn Abu Mulaika reported: I heard `A'isha as saying and she was asked as to whom Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) would have nominated as his successor if he had to nominate one at all. She said: Abu Bakr. It was said to her: Then whom after Abu Bakr? She said: `Umar. It was said to her. Then whom after `Umar? She said: Abu `Ubaida b. al-Jarrah, and then she kept quiet at this.
Read More..Muhammad b. Jubair b. Mut'im reported on the authority of his father that a woman asked Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) about something but lit, told her to come to him on some other occasion, whereupon she said: What in your opinion (should I do) if I come to you but do not find you, and it seemed as if she meant that he might die. Thereupon he said: If you do not find me, then come to Abu Bakr. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jubair b.
Read More..Mut'im through another chain of transmitters (and the words are) that a woman came to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and discussed with him something and he gave a command as we find in the above-mentioned narration.
Read More..A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) in his (last) illness asked me to call Abu Bakr, her father, and her brother too, so that he might write a document, for he feared that someone else might be desirous (of succeeding him) and that some claimant may say: I have better claim to it, whereas Allah and the Faithful do not substantiate the claim of anyone but that of Abu Bakr.
Read More..Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Who amongst you is fasting today? Abu Bakr said: I am. He (again) said: Who amongst you followed a funeral procession today? Abu Bakr said: I did. He (the Prophet) again said: Who amongst you served food to the needy? Abu Bakr said: I did. He (again) said: Who amongst you has today visited the sick? Abu Bakr said: I did. Thereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Anyone in whom (these good deeds) are combined will certainly enter paradise.
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