There were men from Bani Saalim bin Auf tribe, Bani Bayadha, men of
Bani Saida tribe, from whom Saad bin Ubadah was at their forefront. Bani Harth
bin Khazraj, and men from Bani Adi, maternal uncles of Messenger of Allah
(s.a.w.a.), who on the day of the Prophet’s entry in Medina loudly announced:
“Come to us. Come to our people and our facilities and our strength and honor.”1
On that day, Abu Bakr with four, five or six thousand dirhams, which he had
brought from Mecca – if he had brought and how it can be proved? – he did not
have any other wealth and if he had spent all of it, it was of no use and how much
this is worth before that alleged great kingdom?
But we would overlook at this matter from one, who claims to have donated
heavily and ask him: Which wealth did he spend? And for what did he spend it?
And to solve which need did he spend? Why this spending remained concealed
from companions and historians and is not recorded in pages of history and not
mentioned in excellence of Caliph? Were pillars of Islam established through
these few dirhams, whose expenditure is unknown? And Abu Bakr became the
greatest benefactor of Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.)?
More amazing is the fact that Ameerul Momineen Ali (a.s.) had four
dirhams; from which he spent a dirham in charity (Sadaqah) during the night, one
dirham during the day, one secretly and one openly and Almighty Allah revealed
the following verse for him:
ٱلَّذِينَ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَٰلَهُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ سِرًّۭا وَعَلَانِيَةًۭ فَلَهُمْ أَجْرُهُمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ وَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ (٢٧٤)
“(As for) those who spend their property by night and by day,
secretly and openly, they shall have their reward from their
Lord and they shall have no fear, nor shall they grieve.”2
He (a.s.) also gave his finger ring in charity (Sadaqah), which Almighty Allah mentioned in His Book, saying:
إِنَّمَا وَلِيُّكُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَهُمْ رَٰكِعُونَ (٥٥)
“Only Allah is your Guardian and His Apostle and those who
believe, those who keep up prayers and pay the poor-rate while
they bow.”3
And he and his family gave food to the poor, the orphan and the prisoner and Allah said regarding them in Surah Insan:
وَيُطْعِمُونَ ٱلطَّعَامَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِۦ مِسْكِينًۭا وَيَتِيمًۭا وَأَسِيرًا (٨)
“And they give food out of love for Him to the poor and the orphan and the captive:”4
But Abu Bakr spends all his wealth in the way of God, and Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.a.) regards him as one, who has done the greatest favor on His Eminence
from all people, in spite of all this, we don’t find any mention of his in the Holy
Quran; why is it so? You know yourself.
More amazing than this is the fact that Abu Bakr, by spending four, five or
six thousand dirhams – if he possessed that amount – had done the greatest favor
on Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), but Uthman has not become as such, whereas
on the basis of what is mentioned in false traditional reports of Abu Yaala,5 he
donated many times than Abu Bakr and in one battle, he brought ten thousand
dinars and placed them before the Prophet and His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) turned
them over and prayed for Uthman:
O Uthman, what Almighty Allah concealed and what He made apparent He
would bestow on you whatever is to occur till Judgment Day,6 and after this
Uthman is not answerable for any of his deeds (and he did not flinch from any
act).
In my view, it is better for the claimant that he should stretch his statement
till this point and say: I don’t have knowledge of any of these, and I can’t prove
anything from them, and indeed extremism in excellence is fabricated.
Perhaps the researcher is aware of the statement of Baidhawi and
Zamakhshari and he likes them and regards them as good, and he asks me the
way of escape and I reply: