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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Did Abu Bakr Really Lead The Salat? Did Abu Bakr Lead The Prophet? ================================= As if the crisis is not bad enough yet, ‘Aishah threw in one more unnerving contradiction into the mess. Exhibit G Imam Ibn Hibban (d.

354 H) records about it: أخبرنا محمد بن إسحاق بن خزيمة قال حدثنا محمد بن بشار قال حدثنا بدل بن المحبر قال حدثنا شعبة عن موسى بن أبي عائشة عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله عن عائشة أن أبا بكر صلى بالناس ورسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في الصف خلفه Muhammad b. Ishaq b. Khuzaymah – Muhammad b. Bashar – Badal b. al-Muhabbar – Shu’bah – Musa b. Abi ‘Aishah – ‘Ubayd Allah b.

‘Abd Allah – ‘Aishah: Abu Bakr led the people in salat while the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was in the congregational row BEHIND him .[^1] ‘Allamah al-Albani (d. 1420 H) comments: صحيح Sahih ^2 And, Shaykh al-Arnaut concurs: إسناده صحيح على شرط البخاري Its chain is sahih upon the standard of al-Bukhari. ^3 Imam al-Tirmidhi (d.

279 H) also documents: حدثنا محمود بن غيلان حدثنا شبابة [بن سوار] عن شعبة عن نعيم بن أبي هند عن أبي وائل عن مسروق عن عائشة قال صلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم خلف أبي بكر في مرضه الذي مات فيه قاعدا Mahmud b. Ghilan – Shubabah b. Sawar – Shu’bah – Na’im b.

Abi Hind – Abu Wail – Masruq – ‘Aishah: The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, performed salat in a sitting posture BEHIND Abu Bakr during his fatal illness.[^4] Al-Tirmidhi says: حديث عائشة حديث حسن صحيح غريب The hadith of ‘Aishah is hasan sahih gharib . ^5 ‘Allamah al-Albani comments too: صحيح Sahih ^6 When did this take place? At the best, one may only attempt to fix it either in the ‘Isha prayer of Thursday or in the Zuhr of Monday, the Prophet’s last day.

By the narration of Anas, the Messenger of Allah did not step into the mosque at all on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday preceding his death. So, we are left with only the evening of Thursday, when he first stopped leading the salat and the Monday of his demise. According to one report of ‘Aishah, the Messenger of Allah took over the ‘Isha on Thursday, shortly after giving the order to Abu Bakr to lead it.

But, in another narration by her, the Prophet actually never intervened in that ‘Isha at all, and Abu Bakr led it and all subsequent salats till the Zuhr of the following Monday. Yet, even on that Monday, Abu Bakr only prayed beside him as a surrogate Imam.