They addressed the Ansar and said...

They addressed the Ansar and said, “Arabs will only accept this race of Quraysh[^12] and they will never accept prophethood in a family and caliphate in another family.” [^13] Abu Bakr in Saqifa said, نحن قريش والأئمة منا “ We are from the Quraysh and the Imams must be from us.”[^14] Later on, Imam 'Ali (a) expressed his objections to Abu Bakr and 'Umar about how they had relied on “kinship” knowing that he was closer to the Prophet (S).

'Umar replied to Imam 'Ali's (a) objections and said, “Arabs do not want to see prophethood and caliphate in a single family.[^15] Prophethood belonged to you, so let the caliphate be for other families!” There is little element of doubt that upon avoiding allegiance to 'Ali (a) in Saqifa, tribal opposition began and finally, the Quraysh introduced its “tribal superiority” to take advantage of the internal…