You will find there that it is this tradition that has made al-Ma’moon...

You will find there that it is this tradition that has made al-Ma’moon, the Abbasid caliph, give Fadak back to the progeny of Fatima. [^2] By Allah O you Abu Bakr, have you really not known whether Fatima’s claim was true or not after Umm Aymen (the Prophet’s nursemaid) and Imam Ali (s) had witnessed it was true? Have you considered them all to be liars, aggressive or mistaken? Certainly not! But (Nay, but your minds have beguiled you into something. (My course is) comely patience.

And Allah it is Whose help is to be sought in that (predicament) which ye describe). [^3] The other witness besides Umm Aymen was Ameerul Mo’mineen Ali bin Abu Talib (s) undoubtedly. As if ar-Razi found the rejection of Imam Ali’s witness by Abu Bakr abominable so he did not mention the name of Imam Ali (s) respecting Imam Ali and Abu Bakr together so he said “a mawla of the messenger of Allah”.

(136) according to the Sharia”.[^1] Ibn Hajar al-Haythami in his book as-Sawa’iq said: “Fatima, in her claim that the Prophet (s) had donated Fadak to her, did not bring except Ali and Umm Aymen as witnesses and so the quorum was not complete…”[^2] The same has been said by Ibn Taymiyya, ibnul Qayyim and other Sunni ulama concerning this case. May Allah forgive them and us and may He be pleased with Abu Bakr and make Fatima, her father, her husband and her son forgive him!

Would he have preferred a suitable decision in order not to put Fatima (s), the prophet’s trust, who had recently lost her father, in those bad situations; once because of her inheritance, another time because of her donation of Fadak, a third time, a fourth time…worries and griefs…would he have not let her go angry and disappointed and then to die on her anger and to recommend in her will what she had recommended! Glory be to Allah! Where was the deliberateness of the caliph (Abu Bakr)?

Where was his patience? Where was his insight about the ends of the affairs and where was his caring for the benefits of the Muslims? Would he have avoided the fail of Fatima (s) in her situations as possible as he could with all wisdom he had! Had he done so, it would have been much better for him and it would have kept him away from regretting and being blamed and it would have been better to unite the umma!

He could have protected the trust of the Prophet (s) and the only daughter of him, Fatima (s), from being disappointed and then to go back upset stumbling with her garment.