Explanation of the author's statement: The fifteenth: Explicitly stating that al-Siddiq is the best of the Companions. The sixteenth: Alluding to his caliphate.
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The Shaykh :"The fifteenth: Explicitly stating that al-Siddiq is the best of the Companions". Is it an explicit statement? Sahih Muslim 532 If someone else had been higher in rank than him, he would have been more deserving of it. If someone else had been higher in status than him in relation to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), he would have been more deserving of it. One of the important issues in this is that superiority in faith and righteous deeds is above superiority in lineage. Because if we considered lineage in this matter, 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) and Hamzah ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib would have been more deserving than Abu Bakr. But faith and righteous deeds are above all of this, above all of this. Therefore, Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was preferred over 'Ali ibn Abi Talib and the others of the Prophet's family (peace and blessings be upon him).
"The sixteenth: Alluding to his caliphate". He did not say "explicitly stating," he said "alluding to his caliphate."
Had I taken any one of my Ummah as a friend, I would have taken Abu Bakr as a friend.
لو كنت متخذا من أمتي خليلا لاتخذت أبا بكر خليلا"The sixteenth: Alluding to his caliphate". He did not say "explicitly stating," he said "alluding to his caliphate."