لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
“And Allah will protect you from the people.”1
At that time guarding the Prophet was stopped.2 That is why Abu Bakr – if
we accept his being the guard in that story – there should be other sentries as
well.
If this report is correct and on the day of Badr, Abu Bakr performed that
important responsibility, he is having precedence and is deserving that a verse of
Quran should be revealed about him and not Ali, Hamza and Ubaidah, about
whom the following two verses were revealed:
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
“These are two adversaries who dispute about their Lord.”3
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
“Of the believers are men who are true to the covenant which they made with Allah.”4
And regarding Ali Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) these verses would not have been revealed:
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
“He it is Who strengthened you with His help and with the believers.”5
Regarding this verse the report mentioned above was not issued by Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.).6
And the verse:
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
“And among men is he who sells himself to seek the pleasure of Allah.”7
…would not have been restricted to Ali (a.s.) as Qurtubi has mentioned this restriction in this Tafseer8 and we explained that in detail.9
The fact was that the angel Rizwan called out on the day of Badr:
“There is no sword, except Zulfiqar and there is no brave one, except Ali.”
Abu Bakr’s name and the sword he had wielded at the head of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) would have been mentioned.10
In addition to that: Were the severe battles and expeditions of the Prophet
restricted to Badr? And was his tent only pitched in the Battle of Badr? And not
in other battles? And whether the owner of the tent always remained in the tent
and was not present in the battlefield at any time, or that he stepped in the fields
of battle and left his companions alone in the tent? As when the Caliph, who is
the bravest of the people, was with him, whether he was who fled from the battle
often and he was not a severe fighter?
Was this bravest one in the tent when the call of Jibraeel filled the atmosphere:
“There is no sword, except Zulfiqar and there is no brave one, except Ali.”
Was this most bravest person in the tent on the day of Hunain? When the
battle became intense and everyone fled deserting the Prophet and only four
individuals remained. Three from Bani Hashim and one another person:
Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) and Abbas, who were present before the Prophet,
and Abu Sufyan bin Harith, who held the bridle, and Ibne Masud, who stood at
the left and no polytheist came near the Prophet, but that he was slain.11
Were these most brave persons in the tent when Messenger of Allah
(s.a.w.a.) said:
“Indeed, one strike of Ali is better than worship of jinns and humans” and in
other words: “Ali’s killing of Amr bin Abde Wudd is better than combined
worship of jinns and humans” and in another version: “The confrontation of Ali
with Amr bin Abde Wudd is better than the combined deeds of my Ummah till
Judgment Day.”?12