Nothing was left to him except to throw him upon the ground...

Nothing was left to him except to throw him upon the ground in a sham convulsion as though he knew about the 40- SHARH AL-NAHAJ BY IBN AL-HADEED (2:8) 41- AL-IMAMAT WAL SYIASAT death of the Prophet for the first time without any previous anticipation. Then after a short while he accompanied Abubaker to finalize the job with such a zest as if he was released from a long confinement. Now he was not that man who had uttered all that nonsense a while ago.

Confusion, fear and anxiety which some had attributed to his madness now had vanished from him. He was man sanguine and sane went to Saqifa with Abubaker no sooner than he learned the secret meeting of Ansaar there. Another part he had to play there.

5.REACHES THE NEWS OF ANSAA'S MEETING History is mute: does not say anything about Abubaker and Omar as to what they did immediately after the denial of the Prophet's death or where were these two before their going to Saqifa, whether did they both enter the Prophet's houses the door was closed, or did they stand at the door, or Abubaker only entered in? Each of these inquiries wombs a discussion. For the benefit of doubt let us agree that all these things probably might have taken place.

But reason suggests that both of them should have not left the Prophet's house at such a juncture of time. If anything were to happen it was there to happen. The center, the pivot, the base (Ali Bin Abi Taleb) was occupied in giving the last bath and other preliminaries of the burial of the Prophet. No one ever imagined that Ansaar would concoct such a thing against the Prophet's household members and the Muhajareen endeavor for the office excluding them.

They took the initiative on the basis of that in which preference to them could not be denied. Most probably they, Abubaker and Omar, did not stay long at the Prophet's house since they arrived there because two persons from Aous by the names of Ma'an Bin Eddy42 and Awaim Bin Sayeda came in a rush to the house. An old enmity lasted between these two men of Aous and S'ad al-Khazraji the candidate for caliphate. Maan took the hand of Omar but Omar did not like to listen to him as he was occupied.

As the words "something should be done" from an enthusiastic mouth of Ma'an rang into the anxious ears of Omar, attention was lent so as to gain the interest upon the rest -- the disclosure of the secret meeting of Ansaar. The thing perplexed Omar. The second man too did the same to Abubaker. He too got thrilled.

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