Abu Bakr said to him -saww ...

Abu Bakr said to him -saww , ‘Come with us to Madinah, for the people would rejoice at your -saww arrival there and are eager to welcome you -saww . Come with us and do not stay over here waiting for (your -saww brother) Ali -asws , from what I can see, it would take him -asws a month to come to you -saww . So Rasool Allah -saww said to him: ‘Never!

He -asws will not be long, and I -saww will not move until my -saww cousin -asws , and my -saww brother -asws for the sake of Allah -azwj , and the most beloved to me -saww of my -saww Family comes over, for he -asws saved me -saww from the Polytheists by being in my -saww place’.

The Imam -asws said; ‘So Abu Bakr became angry and was disgusted by it, and felt envious of Imam Ali -asws , and that was the first enmity initiated from him to Rasool Allah -saww with regards to Imam Ali -asws , and the first of his opposition to Rasool Allah -saww . So, he went until he entered Madinah, and left behind Rasool Allah -saww at Quba waiting for Imam Ali -asws ’.

(Hadith continues) Nikah of Syeda -asws with Ali -asws and Increase in Prayer: Year 1 (The narrator) said, ‘I said to Imam Ali -asws Bin Al-Hussain -asws , ‘So when did the Messenger -saww get Syeda Fatima -asws married to Imam Ali -asws ?’ He -asws said: ‘In Madinah, a year after the Migration, and Syeda -asws was in her -asws ninth year ’.

So, I (the narrator) said to the fourth Imam -asws , ‘when was the Salat became Obligatory upon the Muslims in the form that they are Praying today?’ He -asws said: ‘At Madinah when the Call was made apparent, and Al-Islam was strong, and Allah -azwj Decreed Jihad upon the Muslims, and Rasool Allah -saww increased in the Prayer, seven cycles – two cycles in Al-Zohr , and two cycles in Al-Asr , and one cycle in Al-Maghrib , and two cycles in Al-Isha , and accepted Al-Fajr upon what it had been Obligated in order to expedite the descent of the Angels of the day from the sky and to expedite that rising of the Angels of the night to the sky.

And the Angels of the night and the Angels of the day had been testifying with Rasool Allah -saww for Al-Fajr Prayer, so that is the Statement of Allah -azwj : “[17:78] (the recital of) the Qur’an at dawn. Lo! (the recital of) the Qur’an at dawn is witnessed” , witnessed by the Muslims and witnessed by the Angels of the day and Angels of the night’.