Reports about the regret of Abu Bakr for attacking the house of
revelation are narrated by Tibrani, Dhahabi and others:
It is narrated from Abu Bakr that when he was in his last
moments, he said: I do not regret anything, except three things, which I
committed…till he said: Alas, if I had not exposed the house of Fatima and had left alone even if I had been forced to
war.[1]
It is sufficient to prove the correctness of this report that
Ziyauddin Muqaddasi Hanbali, senior Ahle Sunnat scholar says: This tradition
from Abu Bakr is of the rank of ‘Hasan’.[2]
Ziyauddin Muqaddasi is among the founders of science of narrators
(Ilme Rijal) and logical reasoning (Jirah wa Tadeel) of Ahle
Sunnat. Allamah Dhahabi has said about him: He is the Imam, the learned, the
memorizer, the decisive evidence, traditionist of Shaam (Syria ) and
Shaykh (scholar/teacher) of Ahle Sunnat.[3]
[1] Al-Mojam
Kabir, Vol. 1, Pg. 62, Sulaiman bin Ahmad bin Ayyub Abul Qasim Tibrani (d.
360 A.H.), Maktaba Zahra, Mosul ,
1404 A.H. – 1983 A.D. Second edition, Edited: Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Salafi;
Tarikh Tabari, Vol.
2, Pg. 353, Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Jarir Tabari (d. 310 A.H.), Darul Kutub
al-Ilmiyya, Beirut ;
Tarikh Medina Damishq wa
Zikr Fadhlaha wa Tasmiya man Halha minal Amail, Vol. 30, Pg. 418, Abul
Qasim Ali bin Hasan Ibne Hibtullah bin Abdullah Shafei (d. 571 A.H.), Darul
Fikr, Beirut, 1995, Edited: Mohibbuddin Abi Saeed Umar bin Ghrama Umari;
Tarikhul Islam wa
Wafayatul Mashahir wal Aaalaam, Vol. 3, Pg. 118, Shamsuddin Muhammad bin
Ahmad bin Uthman Dhahabi (d. 748 A.H.), Darul Kitab al-Arabi, Lebanon, Beirut,
1407 A.H. – 1987 A.D. First edition, Edited: Dr. Umar Abdus Salam Tadmiri;
Majamuz Zawaid wa
Manbaul Fawaid, Vol. 5, Pg. 202, Ali bin Abu Bakr Haithami (d. 807 A.H.),
Darul Riyan Lilturath/Dar Kitab al-Arabi – Cairo , - Beirut – 1407;
Al-Amwaal, Pg. 144,
Abu Ubaid Qasim bin Salam (d. 224 A.H.), Footnote no. 4, Nashr Kulliyat
Azhariya – wal Amwal, Vol. 1, Pg. 387, Abu Ahmad Hamid bin Mukhallad bin
Qutaibah bin Abdullah, alias Ibne Zanjuya Khorasani (d. 251 A.H.);
Al-Imamah was Siyasah, Vol.
1, Pg. 21, Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim Ibne Qutaibah Dainawari (d. 276
A.H.), Edited: Khalil al-Mansur, Darul Kutub Ilmiya, Beirut, 1418 A.H. – 1997
A.D. Edited: Shiri, Vol. 1, Pg. 36, and Edited: Zaini, Vol. 1, Pg. 24;
Al-Iqdul Farid, Vol.
4, Pg. 254; Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abde Rabb al-Andulasi (d. 328 A.H.), Darul
Ahya Turath Arabi, Beirut, Lebanon, Second edition, 1420 A.H. – 1999 A.D.;
Murujuz Zahab, Vol.
1, Pg. 290, Abul Hasan Ali bin Husain bin Ali al-Masudi (d. 346 A.H.);
Simtul Nujum al-Awali
fee Anbail Awail wat Tawali, Vol. 2, Pg. 465, Abdul Malik bin Husain Abdul
Malik Shafei Asimi Makki (d. 1111 A.H.), Edited: Adil Ahmad Abdul Maujud – Ali
Muhammad Maudh, Darul Kutub Ilmiya, Beirut, 1419 A.H. – 1998 A.D.
[2] Al-Ahadithul
Mukhtara, Vol. 1, Pg. 90, Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdul Wahid bin Ahmad
Hanbali Muqaddasi (d. 643), Maktaba Nahzatul Haditha, Mecca – 1410, First
edition, Edited: Abdul Malik bin Abdullah bin Dahish.
[3] Tadkirah
Huffaz, Vol. 4, Pg. 1129, Abu Abdullah Shamsuddin Muhammad Dhahabi (d. 748
A.H.), Darul Kutub Ilmiya, Beirut, First edition.
