Did Abu Bakr Really Lead The Salat

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Author(s): Toyib Olawuyi

Category: Companions Early Islamic History

Topic Tags: Caliphate Miscellaneous information:nbsp;Did Abu Bakr Really Lead The Salat? - A Facts Check

Toyib Olawuyi

ISBN-13: 978-1505609462

ISBN-10: 1505609461

إنما کانت بیعة أبی بکر فلتة وتمت

ألا وإنها قد کانت کذلک

ولکن الله وقی شرها

Person Tags: Abu Bakr

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A Facts CheckIn this book, the author is thoroughly investigating the Sunni reports on the alleged leadership of salat by Abu Bakr during the fatal illness of the Messenger. He will be analyzing the bewildering contradictions between the so-called “sahih” Sunni ahadith on the claim; and he will be questioning the historicity of the whole episode. In particular, he will be examining the correct implications of leadership in salat, according to orthodox Sunni Islam. Does it indicate superiority? Does it confer the khilafah? Do our brothers from the Ahl al-Sunnah really have any case, even if the tale about Abu Bakr had been true?

Dedication

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

This research is dedicated to the master

of all prophets, messengers and Imams,

Muhammad b. ‘Abd Allah,

sallallahu ‘alaihi wa alihi

Acknowledgments

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

Special thanks to Tural Islam, Ali Baker, Aneela Sultan, Jafar Mer and Ahmad Olawuyi. May Allah bless them all and all our loving brothers and sisters from the Shi’ah Imamiyyah and the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama’ah.

Preface

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

Let us imagine that an authentic hadith of the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alaihi wa alihi, reads:

أبو بکر خلیفتی فی کل مؤمن من بعدی

Abu Bakr is my khalifah over every

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