During the rule of Imam Ali Some of those...

During the rule of Imam Ali Some of those, who defended Abu Bakr concerning the matter of Fadak, mentioned that Imam Ali did not recover Fadak and he left it for the Muslims following the same way of Abu Bakr, so if Imam Ali knew that Fatima’s allegation (of Fadak) was true, he would not do that!

I do not want to wide-open, in this answer, the **[1]**According to the holy Quran: (And whatever Allah restored to His Apostle from them you did not press forward against it any horse or a riding camel) 59:6. [2] Futoohul Buldan, p.44. [3] Refer to page 38. [4] Sharh Nahjul Balagha by ibn Abul Hadeed, vol.16 p.213. [5] Futoohul Buldan p.44 and Sharh Nahjul Balagha, vol.16 p.216.

door of taqiyya**[1]** and to try to find an excuse for Imam Ali’s doing, but I never believe that Imam Ali had followed the way of Abu Bakr. History did not show anything of that, but in fact it showed that Imam Ali thought that Fadak was the Prophet’s heirs’. Imam Ali recorded this clearly in his letter to Othman bin Hunayf[2] as you will see in a next chapter.

Perhaps Imam Ali intended that the yields of Fadak concerned Fatima and her heirs, who were her children and husband, and so the news did not need to be spread because Fadak was in its legal possessors’ hands, who were him and his children. And probably that he spent its yields in the interest of the Muslims out of his and his children’s content[3] or they might dedicate it and made it as charity.

During the reign of the Umayyads When Mu’awiya bin Abu Sufyan became the caliph, he went too far in sarcasm and slighting relating to the wronged right (Fadak). He gifted one third of Fadak to Marwan bin al-Hakam, one third to Omar bin Othman and the last third to his son Yazeed. It was still circulated**[4]** among them until it was totally possessed by Marwan during his rule. Finally it came to Omar bin Abdul Aziz bin Marwan. When Omar became the caliph, he paid it back to the Fatimites.

He wrote to his wali of Medina Abu Bakr bin Amr bin Hazm ordering him to give Fadak back to the Fatimites. Abu Bakr bin Amr wrote to [1] To hide one’s true beliefs when life is in danger. [2] Sharh Nahjul Balagha by ibn Abul Hadeed, vol. 16 p.208. [3] This was the most acceptable possibility because the first was rejected by the letter of Imam Ali to Othman bin Hunayf when he said: “ and others withheld themselves from it… ” and the third was rejected by the acceptance of Fadak by the Fatimites.