{"id":12835,"date":"2018-10-16T15:46:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=12835"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:45:49","slug":"the-islam-of-hazrat-abu-bakr-radhiyallahu-anhu-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=12835","title":{"rendered":"The Islam of Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) \u2013 Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=12836\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12836\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12836\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Abu-Bakr-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Abu-Bakr-1.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Abu-Bakr-1-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>When all his household members accepted Islam, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) invited his intimate friends and close associates to embrace this great blessing of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The first person that he invited to bring Imaan and accept Islam was his faithful friend, his childhood acquaintance and his intimate confidant, Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu). Without hesitating for even a moment, Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) accepted Rasulullah\u2019s (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) invitation the moment it was extended to him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/whatisislam.co.za\/images\/article_images\/urdu_poem.PNG\" alt=\"urdu poem\" width=\"150\" height=\"62\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) presented the truth and Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) submitted to it. A single tasdeeq (belief) transformed him into a siddeeq (passionate believer).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In one Hadith, Rasululullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) said, \u201cEvery person to whom I presented Islam showed some degree of hesitation, except for Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu). He embraced Islam without any hesitation at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Imaam Abu Hanifah (rahimahullah) was asked, \u201cWho was the first person to embrace Islam?\u201d he replied, \u201cAmong the free men, it was Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu). Among the women, it was Hazrat Khadijah (radhiyallahu \u2018anha). The first slave to embrace Islam was Hazrat Zaid bin Haarithah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu), while Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) was the first child to enter the fold of Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>(Extracted from Seeratul Mustafa 1\/156)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When all his household members accepted Islam, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) invited his intimate friends and close associates to embrace this great blessing of Islam. The first person that he invited to bring Imaan and accept Islam was his faithful friend, his childhood acquaintance and his intimate confidant, Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu). Without hesitating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[796,62,721],"tags":[154,155,421],"class_list":["post-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-history","category-seerah","category-the-first-people-to-accept-islam","tag-hadhrat-abu-bakr","tag-islam","tag-seerah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12837,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions\/12837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}