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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2519

✧ The manner of the pledge of allegiance in Islam

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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا كَثِيرُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ، أَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَفِيفِ، قَالَ:

شَهِدْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقَ ؓ وَهُوَ يُبَايِعُ النَّاسَ بَعْدَ وَفَاةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ تَجْتَمِعُ إِلَيْهِ الْعِصَابَةُ فَيَقُولُ لَهُمْ: بَايِعُونِي عَلَى السَّمْعِ وَالطَّاعَةِ لِلهِ، وَلِكِتَابِهِ ثُمَّ لِلْأَمِيرِ. فَتَعَلَّقْتُ بِسَوْطِي، وَأَنَا يَوْمَئِذٍ غُلَامٌ مُحْتَلِمٌ أَوْ نَحْوُهُ، فَلَمَّا خَلَا مَنْ عِنْدَهُ أَتَيْتُهُ، فَقُلْتُ: أُبَايِعُكَ عَلَى السَّمْعِ وَالطَّاعَةِ لِلهِ وَلِكِتَابِهِ، وَلِلْأَمِيرِ. قَالَ: فَصَعَّدَ فِيَّ الْبَصَرَ وَصَوَّبَهُ.

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-Ḥārith
  2. Kathīr b. Hishām
  3. Jaʿfar b. Burqān
  4. Thābit b. al-Ḥajjāj
  5. Abū al-ʿAfīf

✧ I witnessed Abu Bakr al-Siddiq ؓ while he was accepting the pledge of allegiance from the people after the death of the Messenger of God ﷺ. A group would gather around him and he would say to them: "Pledge allegiance to me upon hearing and obedience to God and His Book, then to the commander." I clung to my whip, and I was at that time a boy who had reached puberty or around that. When those with him had dispersed, I came to him and said: "I pledge allegiance to you upon hearing and obedience to God and His Book, and to the commander." He said: "He looked me up and down."

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Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20765al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16659

Narrators

  1. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
    Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
    شهدت
  2. Ibn al-ʿAfīf
    أَبِي الْعَفِيفِ
    عن
  3. Thābit b. al-Ḥajjāj
    trustworthy (thiqah)
    ثَابِتِ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِثقة
    عن
  4. Jaʿfar b. Burqān
    Truthful (ṣadūq), who makes mistakes in the narrations of al-Zuhrīd. 150 AH or 151 AH or 154 AH
    جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَصدوق يهم في حديث الزهري
    أنا
  5. Kathīr b. Hishām
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH, or 208 AH, or 209 AH
    كَثِيرُ بْنُ هِشَامٍثقة
    حدثنا
  6. al-Ḥārith
    d. 279 AH or 282 AH
    الْحَارِثُ

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