Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1775
The story of the portico of Banū Sāʿidah and the pledge of allegiance to Abū Bakr as caliph
[ خُطْبَةُ عُمَرَ قَبْلَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عِنْدَ الْبَيْعَةِ الْعَامَّةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي الزُّهْرِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: لَمَّا بُويِعَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فِي السَّقِيفَةِ وَكَانَ الْغَدُ، جَلَسَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ، فَقَامَ عُمَرُ، فَتَكَلَّمَ قَبْلَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ بِمَا هُوَ أَهْلُهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إنِّي كُنْتُ قُلْتُ لَكُمْ بِالْأَمْسِ مَقَالَةً مَا كَانَتْ مِمَّا وَجَدْتهَا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ، وَلَا كَانَتْ عَهْدًا عَهِدَ إلَيَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَلَكِنِّي قَدْ كُنْتُ أَرَى أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ سَيُدَبِّرُ أَمَرْنَا؛ يَقُولُ: يَكُونُ آخِرُنَا وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَبْقَى فِيكُمْ كِتَابَهُ الَّذِي بِهِ هَدَى اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ ﷺ، فَإِنْ اعْتَصَمْتُمْ بِهِ هَدَاكُمْ اللَّهُ لِمَا كَانَ هَدَاهُ لَهُ، وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ جَمَعَ أَمْرَكُمْ عَلَى خَيْرِكُمْ، صَاحِبِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، ثَانِي اثْنَيْنِ إذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ، فَقُومُوا فَبَايِعُوهُ، فَبَايَعَ النَّاسُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ بَيْعَةَ الْعَامَّةِ، بَعْدَ بَيْعَةِ السَّقِيفَةِ
Translation
✧ [The address of ʿUmar before Abū Bakr at the general pledge of allegiance] Ibn Isḥāq said: Al-Zuhrī narrated to me; he said: Anas b. Mālik narrated to me; he said: When Abū Bakr was given the pledge of allegiance in the portico, and the next day came, Abū Bakr sat on the pulpit. Then ʿUmar stood and spoke before Abū Bakr. He praised God and extolled Him as He is worthy, then said: O people, yesterday I said to you a statement that was not among what I found in the Book of God, nor was it a covenant that the Messenger of God ﷺ had covenanted to me. But I had thought that the Messenger of God ﷺ would manage our affair—meaning: he would be the last of us. Indeed, God has kept among you His Book, by which God guided His Messenger ﷺ. If you hold fast to it, God will guide you to what He guided him to. Indeed, God has gathered your affair upon the best of you, the Companion of the Messenger of God ﷺ, the second of two when they were in the cave. So rise and pledge allegiance to him. The people then pledged allegiance to Abū Bakr as the general pledge of allegiance, after the pledge of allegiance in the portico.
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