\n Introduction...

\n Introduction: \n Shortly, after the last Hajj and the last sermon delivered at the Ghadeer-e-Khum ( Ghadeer-e-Khum (hubeali.com) , Rasool Allah -saww appointed Usama ibn Zayd as the commander of an expeditionary force which was to invade the region of Balqa in the Byzantine Empire.

Rasool Allah -saww commanded all companions, except for Ali -asws Ibn Abi Talib -asws , to go with Usama to Syria to avenge the Muslims\u2019 defeat at the Battle of Mu’tah, (see, Battle of Motah (hubeali.com) in which several companions of Rasool Allah -saww were martyred, including Jafar-e-Tayyar (cousin of Rasool Allah -saww ) and Usama’s father Zayd Bin Haris.\u00a0 Initially, Usama’s leadership was rejected by the senior companions as him being too young and inexperienced, but Rasool Allah -saww strongly rejected their reservations and insisted on them going to Jihad under the command of Osama Ibn Zayd.\u00a0 However, they kept on coming up with excuses, one after the other, discussing among them that Osama is too green to lead them as they were older and more experience of Jihad.

\n With this background, we come to our topic of Saqifa , citing the following Hadith, which shows the reluctance of companions to the instructions of Rasool Allah -saww , and connects with what is to follow from Rasool Allah -saww \u2018s illness, passing away and their secret council at Saqifa .