مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب المغازيBook of Battles
ما جاء في (وفاة) النبي ﷺHadiths Regarding the Death of the Prophet (ﷺ)
Hadith 39822
٣٩٨٢٢ - حدثنا عفان (حدثنا) (١) وهيب (٢) (حدثنا) (٣) داود عن أبي نضرة عن أبي سعيد قال: لما توفي رسول اللَّه ﷺ (٤) قام خطباء الأنصار، فجعل الرجل منهم يقول: يا معشر المهاجرين! إن رسول اللَّه ﷺ كان إذا استعمل رجلا منكم قرن معه رجلا منا، فنرى أن (يلي) (٥) هذا الأمر رجلان أحدهما منكم والآخر منا، قال: (فتتابعت) (٦) خطباء الأنصار على ذلك، فقام زيد بن ثابت فقال: إن رسول اللَّه ﷺ (٧) كان من المهاجرين (٨)، ونحن أنصاره كما كنا أنصار رسول اللَّه ﷺ (٩)، فقام أبو بكر فقال: جزاكم اللَّه خيرا يا معشر الأنصار وثبت قائلكم، ثم قال: واللَّه لو فعلتم غير ذلك لما صالحتكم (١٠).
It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Saeed that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, the orator of the Ansar stood up and one of them began to say: O group of Muhajireen! Whenever the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) appointed any one of you as a just (leader), he would also appoint one man from among us with him. Therefore, our opinion is that this matter (caliphate) should also be entrusted to two men, one from you and one from us. The narrator says: Thus, many orators from among the Ansar continuously said this. Upon this, Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit stood up and said: Surely, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was from among the Muhajireen. Therefore, the Imam will also be from among the Muhajireen. And we will be helpers of this Imam just as we were helpers of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Then Hazrat Abu Bakr stood up and said: O group of Ansar! May Allah give you the best reward and keep your speaker steadfast. Then he said: By Allah! If you had decided anything other than this, we would not have reconciled with you.
