Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1376b
"عن ابنِ عُمرَ قال: حَضَرْتُ أَبى حِينَ أُصِيبَ فَأَثْنَوْا عليه فَقَالُوا: جَزاك اللَّه خيرًا، فَقَالَ: راغِبٌ ورَاهِبٌ، قالوا: اسْتَخْلِفْ، فقال: أَتَحمَّلُ أمْرَكُمْ حَيًا وَمَيِّتًا؟ ! لَوَدِدْتُ أَنَّ حَظِّى منها الْكَفَاف لَا عَلَىَّ وَلا لِىَ، إِنْ أَسْتَخْلِفْ فَقَدِ اسْتَخْلَفَ مَنْ هُو خَيْرٌ مِنِّى: أبو بكر، وَإِنْ أَترُكْكُمْ، فقد تَرَكَكُمْ مَنْ هُو خَيْرٌ مِنِّى: رسول اللَّه ﷺ، فعرفْتُ حِين ذكر رسول اللَّه ﷺ أنه غَيْرُ مُسْتَخْلِفٍ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn ʿUmr
- Ḥaḍart Abá Ḥīn Uṣīb Faʾathnawā ʿLyh Faqālūā
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On the authority of Ibn 'Umar, who said: I was present with my father when he was struck. They praised him and said, "May Allah reward you with good." He said, "Hoping and fearing." They said, "Appoint a successor." He said, "Shall I bear your affair alive and dead? I wish that my share of it were merely sufficiency, neither against me nor for me. If I appoint a successor, one better than me has appointed a successor: Abu Bakr. If I leave you, one better than me has left you: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." So I understood, when he mentioned the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, that he would not appoint a successor.
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[حم] أحمد [م] مسلم [ق] البيهقى في السنن
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