al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2235
✧ Fighting against the prevention of zakat.
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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَاسْتُخْلِفَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بَعْدَهُ وَكَفَرَ مَنْ كَفَرَ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ قَالَ عُمَرُ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ كَيْفَ تُقَاتِلُ النَّاسَ وَقَدْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَقُولُوا لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ فَمَنْ قَالَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ عَصَمَ مِنِّي مَالَهُ وَنَفْسَهُ إِلَّا بِحَقِّهِ وَحِسَابُهُ عَلَى اللهِ ؟ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ واللهِ لَأُقَاتِلَنَّ مَنْ فَرَّقَ بَيْنَ الصَّلَاةِ وَالزَّكَاةِ فَإِنَّ الزَّكَاةَ حَقُّ الْمَالِ وَاللهِ لَو مَنَعُونِي عِقَالًا كَانُوا يُؤَدُّونَهُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ لَقَاتَلْتُهُمْ عَلَى مَنْعِهِ قَالَ عُمَرُ فَوَاللهِ مَا هُو إِلَّا أَنْ رَأَيْتُ اللهَ شَرَحَ صَدْرَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ لِلْقِتَالِ فَعَرَفْتُ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ
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Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- al-Layth
- ʿUqayl
- al-Zuhrī
- ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd
- Abū Hurayrah
✧ When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died and Abu Bakr was chosen as his successor, and some of the Arabs disbelieved, 'Umar said to Abu Bakr: "How can you fight the people when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'I have been commanded to fight the people until they say: There is no god but Allah. Whoever says: There is no god but Allah has protected his wealth and his life from me, except for its due, and his reckoning is with Allah'?" Abu Bakr said: "By Allah, I will certainly fight those who separate prayer from Zakat, for Zakat is the due on wealth. By Allah, if they withhold from me a rope they used to give to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I will fight them for withholding it." 'Umar said: "By Allah, it was only when I saw that Allah had opened Abu Bakr's chest to fighting that I knew it was the truth."
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