When Hafsa heard his father thinking of putting no one as the caliph...

When Hafsa heard his father thinking of putting no one as the caliph, he told his father, “If you had a shepherd looking after your sheep and if he had left his duty, you would have regarded him as a waster, so considering people becomes worse.” 'Umar said that if he did not put anyone as the caliph, he had treated like Prophet (S) and if he chose someone, then he had done like Abu Bakr[^24] both seemed to him religious traditions. 'Umar stated that during his life he had been…