# Was Abu Bakr wrong to refuse Fatima Fadak?

*So was Abu Bakr wrong? Both right from different angles*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/7/
- Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (28:19–30:52)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=1699s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/

**Topics:** Succession and the first civil wars; The companions

**Question as asked:** So what Abu Bakr did was wrong?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Not in his view: Abu Bakr was right that Fadak was public fay', while Fatima was right that prophets can be inherited from, so both were right from different angles.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Abu Bakr and Fatima were both right, from different perspectives.

**Evidence, his words at 28:56:** “so I feel they're kind of both right but from different perspectives” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=1736s)

## Longer summary

Following up, a questioner asks whether what Abu Bakr did was wrong. Mufti Abu Layth says he is in line with Abu Bakr on fay': most if not all of the land belonged to the state, not to a person, though the hadith speaks of inheritance, not fay', so the matter is muddled. He says Fatima was entitled to inheritance and both were right from different perspectives, and that his speculation was just his own thought. He stresses that it is not an insult to Abu Bakr, who he says was among the closest people to the Prophet, citing the hadith in which the Prophet told a woman who might not find him on her return to come to Abu Bakr.

## Sources and names cited

- Abu Bakr
- Fatima
- Fadak
- report: if you do not find me come to abu bakr (the woman told to return; Sahih al-Bukhari, number not stated)

## Transcript (machine tier, 28:19–30:52)

[27:39] that look all the companions I kind of love them i I do feel that they were human and the absolutely human it's not that they were kind of angels or anything and and naturally they would have had disagreements and made mistakes but but I just feel that this maybe that's what led to that each the hardy respond it's that immediate response because you see the other companions do disagree with overcurrent later on but I hope that's of some help I just want to sum that that there is no you can't resolve these issues but at least you can have some clarity on them guys I hope that's of some help let's

[28:18] move on we've got the masala to get to as well I've been asked right about somebody said just to follow up on that somebody said so what he did was wrong you see I believe I'm in line with al-baqarah de la on he's thinking in terms of faith so the argument from Fay I feel a worker is right the only problem is in the hadith it doesn't mention that it mentions the argument from point of inheritance now inheritance I feel Fatima of Delano was

[28:56] right so I feel that Fatima was entitled to inheritance but this land I do personally feel was fate and oh maybe most of you if not some of it maybe wasn't but most of it was the general Muslim it belonged to the general state not to a personal property it wasn't a so but the only kind of confusion is in the hadith it doesn't mention PHA it mentions me earth like the Prophet said we don't leave inheritance I so it's all muddled up so I feel they're kind of both right but from different perspectives and then I was deciding the human element of maybe that was just pure speculation that's

[29:35] just me thinking you know I may be wrong so you know it's not too by the way insult and I don't want people to think that oh my god he's thinking oh worker wasn't thoughtful or something like this I do feel that you know when we're asked things that I do feel that our worker was one of the closest people to the prophet sallahu salaam to the extent that in the sahith when the Prophet is asked by a lady that look I need to settle some financial affairs and and I got to do this and I'll come back and the Prophet says he had come back and she says for inula Majid what if I come back and I don't find you and he

[30:13] says I can hurt Annabel mote she intends by what if you no longer alive by the time I finished these things and come after a few years and he says fatiah rebbekkah come to Abu Bakr and I do feel that you know he has his an amazing maqam in Islam radi allahu anhum jimmy on who people let's move on with that right so is it permissible to perform what to purchase loans and by turning them into performing ones and foreclosing properties are paid by borrowers look I do feel that the whole I've got a

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 51Qevhjqnt4/s/7. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/7/

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