Whoever recognizes Ibne Umar and reads the black pages of his history, he
would recognize him with weakness of view, following base desires and lusts,
and bereft of all positive qualities when he was matured and close to old age –
what to say about the beginning of his youth! Some of his frivolous and useless views would be mentioned below. Leave Ibne Umar and whoever like him that
makes selection and issue false statements:
وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَاءُ وَيَخْتَارُ مَا كَانَ لَهُمُ الْخِيَرَةُ
“And your Lord creates and chooses whom He pleases; to choose is not theirs.”1
وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى اللهُ وَرَسُولُنَ أَمْرًا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُمُ الْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ
“And it behoves not a believing man and a believing woman that
they should have any choice in their matter when Allah and His
Apostle have decided a matter.”2
Leave Bukhari and whoever follows him and regards his invalid statement to
be correct and does not distinguish truth from falsehood, and listen to their
frivolous statements and do not fear their rebellion and transgression.
وَلَوِ اتَّبَعَ الْحَقِّ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ لَفَسَدَتِ السَّمُوتُ وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَنْ فِيهِنَّ
“And should the truth follow their low desires, surely the
heavens and the earth and all those who are therein would have
perished.”3
قَدْ جِئْتُكَ بِآيَةٍ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَالسَّلْمُ عَلَى مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدَى
“Indeed we have brought to you a communication from your
Lord, and peace is on him who follows the guidance;”4
Abu Umar in Istiab, says in the biography of Imam Ali (a.s.) that:5
If someone publicizes the tradition of Ibne Umar that: We used to say during
the time of the Prophet: Abu Bakr, then Umar, then Uthman and then we fell
silent – that is: did not regard anyone as superior – we say: Ibne Moin has strictly
denied this statement and has issued a stern judgment against it.
Because one, who issues this statement has gone against consensus of Ahle
Sunnat in the past and present and from the jurists and traditionists that after
Uthman, Ali is the most excellent of people. No one has any dispute with this.
Also the past people had only disputed regarding superiority of Ali over Abu
Bakr. In this general consensus mentioned above, there is a clear evidence that
the tradition of Ibne Umar is doubtful and false and its meaning is not correct,
even though its chains of narrators is correct.
Ibne Hajar after the explanation of this statement of Abu Umar has written:6
Criticism has also been directed against the statement of Abu Umar that: The
demand of their silence at that time on superiority of Ali, was not permanent to
his being not superior. And the mentioned consensus occurred after the time that
Ibne Umar has specified; so his tradition is not wrong.
From Ibne Hajar and whoever has refuted the statement of Abu Umar, it has
remained concealed that the above-mentioned consensus was only due to
precedence of Maula Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) on the day that Ibne Umar
remained silent regarding his selection.
He was also holding that view of precedence, which was not new and fresh
and Quran and Sunnah had praised him; thus his silence at that time from giving
precedence to him after those persons is forever.
Because if consensus on his selection and his taking precedence in
excellence and having favors mentioned in Quran and Sunnah, then these
qualities had never separated from him; and it was due to these qualities that he
had precedence throughout his life and the day Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) left the
world.
If consensus was anything other than this quality like old age and seniority
in age and it’s like, we will say that we do not regard these issues as factors of
superiority and between Ali (a.s.) and others.
Through these useless issues, Ahle Sunnat have deceived the simple people
of Ummah of Muhammad.
Alas, if someone had only criticized the statement of Abde Barr, if he does
not accept all that is mentioned in Quran and Sunnah regarding Ameerul
Momineen (a.s.), it would be very less than what is narrated from Anas that:
The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said: Indeed, Almighty Allah has made
friendship of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali obligatory upon you, just as He
made Prayer, Zakat, Fast and Hajj; thus whoever denies their precedence, his
Prayer, Zakat, Fast and Hajj will not be accepted.(7)(8)
How much is the distance between the viewpoint of Ibne Umar and his
father, who said regarding Ali (a.s.):
“This one is my Maula and the Maula of all believers; one whose Maula Ali
is not, is not a believer.”9
Perhaps Ahle Sunnat have fabricated the traditional report to conceal the
defect of the selection of Ibne Umar, and to get relief from condemnation of Abu Umar as was mentioned from Jaudaba10 bin Yahya from Alaa bin Bashir Abthami from Ibne Abi Owais from Malik from Nafe from Ibne Umar that he said: