When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away and Abu Bakr was appointed caliph after him, some of the Arabs reverted to disbelief. Umar bin Khattab said to Abu Bakr, "How can you fight these people when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'I have been commanded to fight people until they say, There is no god but Allah. Whoever says, There is no god but Allah, has secured his property and life from me, except by its rightful claim, and his reckoning is with Allah'?"Abu Bakr replied, "By Allah, I will fight anyone who separates prayer from zakat, for zakat is the due of wealth. By Allah, if they withhold from me even a young camel's tether that they used to give to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I will fight them for withholding it."Umar said, "By Allah, the moment I saw that Allah had opened Abu Bakr's heart to fighting, I knew it was the truth."
لما توفي رسول الله ﷺ، واستخلف أبو بكر بعده، وكفر من كفر من العرب قال عمر بن الخطاب لأبي بكر: كيف تقاتل الناس وقد قال رسول الله ﷺ: أمرت أن أقاتل الناس حتى يقولوا: لا إله إلا الله. فمن قال: لا إله إلا الله، فقد عصم مني ماله ونفسه إلا بحقه، وحسابه على الله. فقال أبو بكر: والله لأقاتلن من فرق بين الصلاة والزكاة، فإن الزكاة حق المال، والله لو منعوني عقالا كانوا يؤدونه إلى رسول الله ﷺ لقاتلتهم على منعه. فقال عمر: فوالله ما هو إلا أن رأيت الله عز وجل قد شرح صدر أبي بكر للقتال، فعرفت أنه الحق.
Bukhari narrated it in the book on zakat (1399), and Muslim in the book on faith (20), both from the hadith of Zuhri, who said, Ubaydullah bin Abdullah bin Utba bin Masud told me, from Abu Hurairah, and he related it, and the wording is Muslim's.