Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 1-571b

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"From Ibn ʿUmar, who said: When the Prophet ﷺ was taken, hypocrisy raised its head in Medina, the Arabs apostatized, and the non-Arabs thundered and lightened, and they made an appointment to meet at Nahāwand. They said: 'This man by whom the Arabs were given victory has died.' So Abū Bakr gathered the Muhājirūn and the Anṣār and said: 'These Arabs have withheld their sheep and their camels and have turned back from their religion, and these non-Arabs have made an appointment at Nahāwand to gather to fight you, and they claim that this man by whom you were given victory has died. So advise me, for I am only a man among you, yet I bear the heaviest burden of this calamity.' They bowed their heads for a long time. Then ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb spoke and said: 'By God, O Successor of the Messenger of God, I think you should accept prayer from the Arabs and leave the zakāh for them, for they are close to the time of ignorance (jāhiliyyah) and Islam has not yet led them. Either God will return them to goodness, or God will strengthen Islam and you will become strong enough to fight them. The rest of the Muhājirūn and the Anṣār have no strength against all the Arabs and non-Arabs together.' Then he turned to ʿUthmān, who said the same, and ʿAlī said the same, and the Muhājirūn followed them. Then he turned to the Anṣār and they followed them. When he saw that, he ascended the pulpit, praised God and extolled Him, then said: To proceed: God sent Muḥammad ﷺ when the truth was scarce and scattered, and Islam was a stranger, driven away, its rope worn and its people few. God gathered them through Muḥammad ﷺ and made them the enduring, middle nation. By God, I will not cease to carry out the command of God and to strive in the path of God until God fulfills His promise to us and keeps His covenant with us. Whoever of us is killed will be a martyr in Paradise, and whoever of us remains will be the vicegerent of God on His earth and the heir of the worship of the truth. For God the Exalted has said to us, and His word has no breach: {وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ}. By God, if they withheld from me even a hobbling rope of what they used to give to the Messenger of God ﷺ, even if the trees, the clods of earth, the jinn and mankind came with them, I would fight them until my soul joins God. God did not separate prayer and zakāh, but joined them together.' Then ʿUmar said 'Allāhu akbar' and said: 'By God, I knew, when God resolved Abū Bakr to fight them, that it was the truth.'"

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