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A Conversation Between Sayyiduna Abu Bakr & Mawla Ali (radiAllahu anhuma) It is recorded in Sunan ad-Darimi, upon the

authority of Abu Hurayrah (radiAllahu anhu) that both Abu Bakr (radiAllahu anhu) & Ali (alayhi salaam) arrived at the door of the Prophet . Abu Bakr (radiAllahu anhu) said: Ya Ali, you go first. Ali (alayhi salaam) replied: Please you go before me. I will never go in fro nt of a man of whom the Messenger said the sun never rises or sets on any better man than Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr (radiAllahu anhu) replied: How can I go before whom the Messenger said the best woman (Fatimah, alayha salaam) was given to the best man. Ali (alayhi salaam) then said: I will never enter before a person whom the Messenger said on the Day of Judgement a call will come from Almighty Allah saying O Abu Bakr! You & the ones that love you enter Jannaah! Abu Bakr (radiAllahu anhu) replied: I will never go before you because you will come rising on the Day of Judgement and it will be said that he was a good man, a good brother & a good father. So Ali (alayhi salaam) then said: I will never go before you when the Prophet said, If the Imaan of Abu Bakr was placed on one side of the scale and the Imaan of the Ummah on the other, the Imaan of Abu Bakr would outweigh it. Abu Bakr (radiAllahu anhu) replied: I cannot go before the one who the Prophet said on the Day of Judgement Ali will come with his wife Fatimah (alayha salaam), their two children rid ing on a camel and the people will ask Who is this O Prophet ? and the reply will be given, This is the one whom Allah loves. Ali (alayhi salaam) then replied that the Messenger said: Allah said, The one who brought Sidq was RasoolAllah & the Siddeeq is the one that follows. Jibreel (alayhi salaam) was then instructed to go to the Prophet and say, Allah sends His Salam & all the Malaaika are listening to the conversation between Abu Bakr and Ali (radiAllahu taala anhuma) go out and be the third one to resolve it! Allah (subhanahu wa taala) sends his special rahmah & has built a fence of Imaan & Adab between them (Meaning they are the people of Adab) The Prophet then came out & kissed both of them & said: By the one in whose hand lays my soul, if the sea was ink & the trees pens and the creations of the heavens & the earth were writing they would never be able to write about your virtues nor describe your words.

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