Objection of the People to the Commandership of Zaid bin Harithah (ra) and its Refutation by the Holy Prophet (sa) — Seal of the Prophets Vol. 3
Introduction
In this discourse from The Life & Character of the Seal of the Prophets (Volume 3), Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra) details the historical events and scholarly insights surrounding Objection of the People to the Commandership of Zaid bin Harithah (ra) and its Refutation by the Holy Prophet (sa).
Book Series: The Life & Character of the Seal of the Prophets (Volume 3)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra)
Section: I – Commencement of the Second Era of Life in Madinah
Pages: Book pp. 31–35 (PDF pp. 49–53)
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Historical Account
to the commandership of Zaid as well, but only natural worthiness is taken into account by Islām. By God, as Zaid was worthy of commandership, so is his son, Usāmah, worthy of commandership and I love both of them dearly.” The companions bowed their necks before this prophetic proclamation, which was the conveyor of Islām’s true equality. Furthermore, they realised that for someone to be a slave or the son of a slave, or to be from an apparently lower class, could not become the means of hindrance in his path to success, according to Islām. In every case, the actual standard (for success) is based on fear of Allāh and natural worthiness.
[Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābu Faḍā’ili Aṣḥābin-Nabiyyisa, Bābu Manāqibi Zaid-ibni Ḥārithata…, Ḥadīth No. 3730 * Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 3, pp. 26-27, Aṭ-Ṭabaqatul-Ūlā ‘Alas- Sābiqati Fil-Islāmi Mim-Mann Shahida Badran/Dhikru Zaidil-Ḥibbi, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) * Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 4, pp. 352-353, Aṭ-Ṭabaqith-Thāniyatu Minal-Muhājirina Wal-Anṣār/Usāmatu Al-Ḥibb-ubnu Zaidin, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996)]
II Brief Note on Islāmic Equality
II Brief Note on Islāmic Equality
Book Series: The Life & Character of the Seal of the Prophets (Volume 3)
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