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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Fadak in History Chapter Five the Court of the Book Surely Allah commands you to make over trusts to their owners and that when you judge between people you judge with justice; surely Allah admonishes you with what is excellent; surely Allah is Seeing, Hearing.

Quran, 4:57 If we wanted to raise our study to an adequate level, we would have to follow the methods of the scientific research in studying two sides: Abu Bakr’s situation on the Prophet’s inheritance The first side: Abu Bakr’s situation regarding the inheritance of Fatima (s) that he justified according to a tradition, which he alone narrated from the Prophet (s) about the matter of inheritance.

He narrated the tradition in different ways and different statements for the confrontations between him and Fatima (s) were many, so each saying of his had a different form and different statements according to the phrases that came to his mind at the time of each confrontation between them. [1] [1] Refer to Sunan of al-Bayhaqi, vol.6 p.297-302 and Sharh Nahjul Balagha, vol.16 p.214, 218, 219, 221, 227.

Before all we want to note how certain the caliph was of the truthfulness of the tradition, which he found that it showed that the Prophet (s) did not bequeath. How certain was he that he had heard it from the Prophet (s) and whether he changed his mind or not?

We can understand that from the traditions**[1]** saying that the caliph gave Fadak back to Fatima and the case was about to be ended unless Omar came and said to the caliph: “What is this?” Abu Bakr said: “It is a document I wrote for Fatima confessing her right of her father’s inheritance”. Omar said: “What will you spend on the Muslims and as you see that the Arabs stand against you?” He (Omar) took the document and tore it.

[2] We quote this tradition cautiously although we may believe in its truthfulness because every thing would encourage not narrating this story unless it had something of reality.

If it was true, it would mean that (the attempt of) giving Fadak to Fatima (s) occurred after Fatima’s eternal speech and when Abu Bakr denied the Prophet’s inheritance by narrating his odd tradition, because of the wars of apostasy, Omar referred to in his saying, took place ten days after the day of the saqeefa**[3]** and Fatima’s speech was in the tenth day too. [4] Abu Bakr showed his regret for not giving Fadak to Fatima when he was about to die.