127 prayed seventeen times with the people.

127 prayed seventeen times with the people.1 Balazari has related from Minhal Ibn Umar, from Suwaid Gafla, from Hazrat Ali that the holy Prophet chose Abu Bakr for leading the Prayer of the believers, and during the life of the holy Prophet, Abu Bakr prayed for nine days, and after that the Prophet expired. Ibn Sa'ad had quoted from Muhammad Ibn Qays that the holy Prophet was sick for 13 days.

Whenever he felt better he lead the prayers, and whenever he felt heavy, Abu Bakr prayed in front of the people!! The true history Duty of Abu Bakr and Umar to the command of Usamah and the necessity to obey him Many traditions in the Sahih, Sunan, and Mosnad books, life sketches and histories have come to the scholars of the Caliphate school. There are beautiful and strange anecdotes in them; but none are authentic!

The reason is that at that time the holy Prophet had sent Abu Bakr, Umar and many other elder muslims for the expedition to Rome, under the command of Usamah. How then did he had repeatedly asked them to join the army Tabaq?t Ibn Sa'ad, Vol. 2, P. 223, European Edition, Vol. 2, Part. 2 P. 23, Ibn Kathir Vol. 5, P. 235 and Mohammad Ibn Umar have narrated that Abu Bakr prayed 20 times with people. of Usamah.

The holy Prophet cursed these who would disobey the army of Usamah.1 On the day of 26th Safar, 11 years after Hijrat, the holy Prophet ordered the people to get ready for the expedition to Rome. On the next day he called Usamah bin Zaid and said: "Go towards the place where your father was killed. Raise an army for them as I have made you the commander of this army." On the next day, which was Wednesday, the Prophet became ill. He had fever and headache.

On Thursday the Prophet gave the flag to Usamah and told him: "By the name of Allah and in the way of Allah, fight with those who disbelieve in God." Usamah came out with the flag, and gave it to Burida Ibn Hasib Aslami, and arranged the army in groups, so that no earlier muslim (Mohajirs and Ansars) were left but were recalled to the war. They included Abu Bakr, Umar Ibn Khattab, Abu Ubaidah Jarrah, Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqqas, Sa'eid Ibn Zaid, Qutada Ibn Noman, and Salma Ibn Aslam.

Some persons remarked about the Usamah and said: "This young has been made the Commander over the elders! So the holy Prophet became very angry. He came out while he had wrapped a cloth on himself. Then he went on the pulpit and said: "The talk of some people about the selection of Usamah as a commander has reached me.