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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.

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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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