{"id":20708,"date":"2023-06-19T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=20708"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:26:24","slug":"hazrat-umars-radhiyallahu-anhu-respect-for-hazrat-abu-bakr-radhiyallahu-anhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=20708","title":{"rendered":"Hazrat Umar\u2019s (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) Respect for Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/English_36_7-Edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23902 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/English_36_7-Edited-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/English_36_7-Edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/English_36_7-Edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/English_36_7-Edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/English_36_7-Edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/English_36_7-Edited-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/English_36_7-Edited.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) always acknowledged the lofty position of Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) and he did not regard himself to be equal to Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu).<\/p>\n<p>On one occasion, a group of people praised Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) saying, \u201cBy Allah! We never saw a man who dispenses justice, speaks the truth and is more severe upon the hypocrites than you, O Ameer-ul-Mu\u2019mineen! After Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam), you are the greatest person (of this ummah)!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearing this, Hazrat Auf bin Maalik (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) objected to the people who mentioned this saying, \u201cYou people have not spoken the truth! By Allah, I have seen another man who is actually the greatest person after Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam)!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the people asked Hazrat Auf (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) as to whom he was referring to, he replied, \u201cI am referring to Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) (as he is the greatest person of this ummah after Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) and the Ambiyaa).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) then said, \u201cBy Allah! Hazrat Auf (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) has spoken the truth and you people have not spoken the truth! Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) was more fragrant than musk while I was still astray and more misguided than my family\u2019s camel (i.e. Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) mentioned this referring to the period before he had accepted Islam, and at that time, Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) already possessed Imaan and had excelled in Deen).\u201d (<em>Manaaqib Umar bin Khattaab libnil Jowzi pg. 141)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) always acknowledged the lofty position of Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) and he did not regard himself to be equal to Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu). On one occasion, a group of people praised Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) saying, \u201cBy Allah! We never saw a man who dispenses justice, speaks the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,872,774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles","category-hazrat-umar-radhiyallahu-anhu","category-sahaabah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708","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=20708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23903,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions\/23903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}