Azami 4958

Bukhari narrated it in the tafsir (4655) from Saeed bin Afir, who said, Layth narrated to me, who said, Aqeel narrated to me, from Ibn Shihab, "Humayd bin Abdul-Rahman informed me that Abu Hurairah," (he said, then he related it). Regarding his words "he informed me," Kirmani said, the conjunction "and" indicates that he also informed him of something else. It has been said that it is connected to something implied.The hadith indicates that Abu Bakr was the commander over the people on that pilgrimage, and that Ali was the one commanded to make the announcement. It seems that Ali could not manage the announcement alone and needed someone to help him with it, so Abu Bakr sent Abu Hurairah and others along with him to assist him, as comes in a hadith narrated by Imam Ahmad (7977) through the route of Mahraz bin Abu Hurairah, from his father Abu Hurairah, who said, "I was with Ali bin Abu Talib when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent him to the people of Makkah with the disavowal." This is how Tahawi compiled it in his "Mushkil," and further verification will come in its proper place regarding the matter of the covenant that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made with the polytheists. This is because in the narration of Ahmad referred to above it occurs, "and whoever has a covenant between him and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, then his term or period extends to four months." The correct view is that his term extends to the duration of his covenant, based on the words of Allah Most High, "Except for those of the polytheists with whom you made a covenant and who have not diminished you in anything nor supported anyone against you, so fulfill their covenant to them until their term. Indeed, Allah loves the righteous" [Tawbah 9:4]. This is what is indicated by what comes in "Jami Tirmidhi" from Ali, "and whoever had a covenant between him and the Prophet ﷺ, his covenant extends to its term, and whoever had no term, then four months."All these matters will come in detail in their proper place. As for what was narrated concerning Abu Bakr, that the Prophet ﷺ sent him with the disavowal to the people of Makkah, "No polytheist shall make pilgrimage after this year, no one shall circle the House naked, and no soul shall enter Paradise except a Muslim soul. Whoever has a term between him and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, his term extends to its duration, and Allah disavows the polytheists, and so does His Messenger." He said, so he traveled with it for three days, then he said to Ali , "Catch up with him, take the message back from Abu Bakr, and deliver it yourself." He said, so he did. He said, then when Abu Bakr came to the Prophet ﷺ he wept and said, "Messenger of Allah, has something happened concerning me?" He said, "Nothing has happened except good, but I was commanded that no one should deliver it except myself or a man from my own family." This contains an objectionable element.Imam Ahmad (4) and Abu Yaala (104) narrated it from the hadith of Waki, who said, Israil narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Zayd bin Yuthay, from Abu Bakr, then he related it. Zayd bin Yuthay was narrated from solely by Abu Ishaq, and no one deemed him reliable except Ibn Hibban and Ajli, while Ibn Saad said he had few hadiths, so someone like him cannot be "trustworthy," as Hafiz said in "Taqrib." He then narrated in his report something objected against him, namely his statement, "but I was commanded that no one should deliver it except myself or a man from my own family."Juzjani recorded it in "Abatil wal-Manakir" (128/1–131) and said, this is a hadith munkar. He then narrated it also from the hadith of Imam Ahmad and others, and said, "all these narrations are confused, contradictory, and objectionable."Khattabi said in the book "Shiar Din," "As for his statement, 'no one shall deliver on my behalf except a man from the people of my household,' this is something brought by the people of Kufa from Zayd bin Yuthay, who is suspected in narration and attributed to Shiism. Most of those to whom he conveyed messages were not from his household, for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent Asaad bin Zurara to Madinah to call people to Islam and teach the Ansar the Quran, and he sent Muaz and Abu Musa to Yemen, and he sent Itaab bin Usayd to Makkah. So where does that leave the claim of whoever asserts that no one delivers on his behalf except a man from his household?!" See "Minhaj Sunnah" (63/5).I say, moreover, he was inconsistent in narrating this hadith. At one time he said, "from Abu Bakr," making it part of his musnad. At another time he said, "I asked Ali, 'With what were you sent?'" He said, "With four things, no soul shall enter Paradise except a Muslim soul, no one shall circle the House naked, the Muslims and the polytheists shall not gather together after this year of theirs, and whoever has a covenant between him and the Prophet ﷺ, his covenant extends to its term, and whoever has no term, then four months."Tirmidhi narrated it (871) from Ali bin Khashram, who said, Sufyan bin Uyayna informed us, from Abu Ishaq, from Zayd bin Yuthay, who said (then he related it). Tirmidhi said, this is a hasan hadith. Imam Ahmad (594) also narrated it, and Hakim declared it sahih (178/4), both of them from the hadith of Sufyan by his chain, in similar wording. Hakim said, this is a hadith sahih in its chain of transmission.It has other chains that Daraqutni mentioned in "Ilal" (163/3), and he said, "what Ibn Uyayna narrated from Abu Ishaq, from Zayd bin Yuthay, from Ali, is the preserved version." These narrations do not mention the objectionable sentence, namely, "I was commanded that no one should deliver it except myself or a man from my own family."