{"id":20342,"date":"2023-01-16T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=20342"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:09:26","slug":"the-best-person-of-this-ummah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=20342","title":{"rendered":"The Best Person of this Ummah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20343\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/English_22-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/English_22-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/English_22-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/English_22-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/English_22-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/English_22-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/English_22.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Abu Dardaa radhiyallah anhu mentioned, \u201cOn one occasion, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) saw me walking in front of Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) had seen this, he addressed me saying, \u201cDo not walk in front of the one who is better than you. (i.e Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu anhu)\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) explained the great virtue of Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu anhu). Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) said, \u201cAbu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) is the best person (of this ummah) upon whom the sun rose or set.\u201d (Tabaraani &amp; Majma\u2018uz Zawaa\u2019id #14314)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Abu Dardaa radhiyallah anhu mentioned, \u201cOn one occasion, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) saw me walking in front of Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu). \u201cWhen Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) had seen this, he addressed me saying, \u201cDo not walk in front of the one who is better than you. (i.e Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu anhu)\u201d\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,871,774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles","category-hazrat-abu-bakr-radhiyallahu-anhu","category-sahaabah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20342","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20344,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20342\/revisions\/20344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}