Ibne Manda and Ibne Asakir have narrated from Ayesha that:1“None, but
the father of Abu Bakr embraced Islam from the emigrants (Muhajireen)”2
Mohib Tabari in his Riyaz,3 has narrated from Wahid with broken chains of
narrators and without chains of narrators from Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) that he
said regarding Abu Bakr:
“Both: his father and mother embraced Islam, and the father and mother of
none of the Muhajireen other than them embraced Islam.”
Some of the later scholars, like Shablanji and his contemporaries, have
narrated these two traditions and regarded them merits of Abu Bakr, on whom all
have consensus.
Allamah Amini says: We considered the reputation of Ali and Ayesha to be
free of such great falsehood, which history testifies in favor of and which
biography of Muhajireen belies.
Concealed love, has blinded and made deaf narrators of this false traditional
report from what is present in all the books; that is why they have resorted to
exaggeration and committed excess in quoting and have not paid attention to the
consequences of their statements. Is this the limit of their knowledge? Or they
have attributed falsehood to Almighty Allah knowingly?
As mentioned in Seerah Ibne Hisham,4 descendants of Mazun, who were
from Bani Jama, descendants of Jahash bin Rathab, allies of Bani Umayyah, the
descendants of Bukair, allies of Bani Saad bin Laith and Bani Adi bin Kaab, all
of them had migrated from Mecca with their families and belongings, and their
houses were closed up, such that no one from them lived in Mecca.
Were the ladies of these great and populated families without husband or
were barren? Or their children were without parents (orphans) and were single? Or their fathers, childless? O God, love (misplaced) that makes men blind in such
a way!
Come let us read a page of the account of Muhajireen:
This is Ammar bin Yasir, who was a great emigrant, whose father and
mother were at the forefront of embracing Islam, who were tortured for the sake
of Islam, as mentioned in Tahzibut Tahzib, Musaddad has said:5
“Among the Muhajireen, there was no one, whose parents were Muslims,
except those of Ammar bin Yasir.”
Now, this statement falsifies the embracing of Islam by parents of Abu Bakr.
And this is Abdullah Ibne Ja’far, whose father migrated with his two
brothers: Muhammad and Aun, with their mother Asma binte Umais and…6
The researcher will find in all books of biography and history and books
containing accounts of people, numerous emigrants, whose fathers or parents had
embraced Islam. Thus, the excellence, which only Mohib Tabari and Suyuti and
the like of these two have mentioned for the father or parents of Abu Bakr and
attributed those reports to Maula Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), is nothing, but
ignorance and falsehood, which comprises of exaggeration.