ABU BAKR’S UTTER FEAR OF ALLAH
According to our belief, Abu Bakr As-Siddeeq, may Allah be pleased with him, is the most exalted person after the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. The Prophet conveyed to him the glad tidings that his name shall be called out from all the gates of Paradise, and that he will be the first of his followers to enter it. With all these virtues and privileges, he used to say, “I wish I were a tree that would be cut and done away with.” Sometimes he said, “I wish I were a blade of grass whose life ended with the grazing of some beast.” This reflects his utter fear of Allah and his apprehension of reckoning on the Day of Judgement.
Abu Ahmad Al-Haakim reports on the authority of Mu’aadh Ibn Jabal who said: One day Abu Bakr entered a garden where he saw a bird standing under the shade of a tree. Me sighed deeply and said: “0 bird, how lucky you are! You eat from trees and take shade under them; when you die you do not have fear of reckoning on the Day of Judgement. 1 wish 1 were just like you.”
Al-Asma’i narrates: When Abu Bakr was praised he used to say: “O Allah! You know me better than I do, I know myself better than them. O Allah! Let me better than I think I am, forgive me for what they do not know, and do not hold me accountable for what they say. “(Reported by Ibn ‘ Asaakir.)
On the authority of Qatadah who says: “I was told that Abu Bakr said, ’I wish I were a plant eaten by animals.”(Reported by Ahmad.)
Abu ‘ Imraan Al-Jawni reports that Abu Bakr said: “I wish I were just a hair in the body of a devout Mu’min (believer).”(Reported by Ahmad.)
Ahmad narrates on the authority of Mujaahid who said: “When I bn Az-Zubayr used to stand for Salaah he used to look like a “stick” out of his extreme devoutness and piety. And 1 was told that Abu Bakr was like him.”
On the authority of Damurah Ibn Habeeb who says: “When one of Abu Bakr’s sons was dying, he kept looking at a cushion, so they pushed him away from the cushion and found five or six dinars under it. Abu Bakr said: “To Allah we belong, and to Him is our return! I do not think you can bear the burden of that sin.”(Reported by Ahmad.)
Ibn Sa’d narrates on the authority of Ibn Sireen who said: “Ever since the demise of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, no one has been known to be most conscious in giving judgement about matters that he did not know, except Abu Bakr, and nobody was so conscious of Allah like Abu Bakr, except ‘ Umar. When Abu Bakr used to have a case that is not referred to in the Qur’an and the Sunnah, he used to say: “I tried to arrive at the right opinion through my own personal judgement; if it is right, it is Allah’s Favor, and if it is wrong, it is my fault and I pray to Allah to forgive me.”
(Source: Biographies of the Rightly Guided Caliphs.)
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