Sunan an-Nasa'i

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3970

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Sunan an-Nasa'i 3970
Arabic hadith text

أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، أَخْبَرَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَاسْتُخْلِفَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَكَفَرَ مَنْ كَفَرَ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ قَالَ عُمَرُ لأَبِي بَكْرٍ كَيْفَ تُقَاتِلُ النَّاسَ وَقَدْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ "‏ أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَقُولُوا لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ فَمَنْ قَالَ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ عَصَمَ مِنِّي مَالَهُ وَنَفْسَهُ إِلاَّ بِحَقِّهِ وَحِسَابُهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَاللَّهِ لأُقَاتِلَنَّ مَنْ فَرَّقَ بَيْنَ الصَّلاَةِ وَالزَّكَاةِ فَإِنَّ الزَّكَاةَ حَقُّ الْمَالِ وَاللَّهِ لَوْ مَنَعُونِي عِقَالاً كَانُوا يُؤَدُّونَهُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم لَقَاتَلْتُهُمْ عَلَى مَنْعِهِ قَالَ عُمَرُ فَوَاللَّهِ مَا هُوَ إِلاَّ أَنِّي رَأَيْتُ اللَّهَ شَرَحَ صَدْرَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ لِلْقِتَالِ فَعَرَفْتُ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Qutaybah ibn Saʿid reported to us; he said: al-Layth narrated to us, from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhri; ʿUbaydullah ibn ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUtbah informed me, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, died and Abu Bakr was appointed as his successor, some of the Arabs rejected the faith. ʿUmar said to Abu Bakr: ‘How can you fight the people when the Messenger of Allah 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 made his life and property safe from me, except by a right that is due, and his reckoning is with Allah”?’ Abu Bakr said: ‘By Allah, I will fight whoever separates prayer from zakah, for zakah is a due right on wealth. By Allah, if they withhold from me even a tethering cord that they used to give to the Messenger of Allah, I will fight them for withholding it.’ ʿUmar said: ‘By Allah, as soon as I saw that Allah had opened Abu Bakr’s heart to fighting, I knew it was the truth.’

Notes and open questions — unreviewed

  • The ‘tethering cord’ represents even a very small due amount of zakah that was withheld.