Abu Ubaid Qasim bin Salam (d. 224 A.H.), who is considered a
reliable Islamic jurist, has narrated from Abdur Rahman bin Auf in the book of Al-Amwal:
I visited Abu Bakr in his terminal illness. After preliminaries,
he said: I regret having committed three acts and not doing three things, and I
also should have asked about three things for the Messenger of Allah (s)…one of
the three thing, which I should not have done, is that if only I had not
committed that act and had not done it in this and that way. [Alas, if I had
not trespassed on the sanctity of the house of Fatima
and had not attacked her place][1]…I
am not inclined to mention the statement of Abu Bakr…[2]
[1] We
shall mention this report in more detail in the coming posts, and the aim of
this part of report will become clear.
[2] Al-Amwaal,
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