سنن أبي داود

Hadith 4646

Book 42: Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

كِتَاب السُّنَّةِ

Chapter 9

Chapter: The Caliphs.

باب فِي الْخُلَفَاءِ

English narration

Narrated by سفينة مولى النبي

Narrated Safinah: The Prophet ﷺ said: The Caliphate of Prophecy will last thirty years; then Allah will give the Kingdom of His Kingdom to anyone He wills. Saeed told that Safinah said to him: Calculate Abu Bakr's caliphate as two years, Umar's as ten, Uthman's as twelve and Ali so and so. Saeed said: I said to Safinah: They conceive that Ali was not a caliph. He replied: The buttocks of Marwan told a lie.

النص العربي

حَدَّثَنَا سَوَّارُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ ، عَنْ سَفِينَةَ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : "

خِلَافَةُ النُّبُوَّةِ ثَلَاثُونَ سَنَةً ، ثُمَّ يُؤْتِي اللَّهُ الْمُلْكَ أَوْ مُلْكَهُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ

" ، قَالَ سَعِيدٌ : قَالَ لِي سَفِينَةُ : أَمْسِكْ عَلَيْكَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ سَنَتَيْنِ ، وَعُمَرُ عَشْرًا ،وَعُثْمَانُ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ وَعَلِيٌّ كَذَا ، قَالَ سَعِيدٌ : قُلْتُ لِسَفِينَةَ : إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام لَمْ يَكُنْ بِخَلِيفَةٍ ، قَالَ : كَذَبَتْ أَسْتَاهُ بَنِي الزَّرْقَاءِ ، يَعْنِي بَنِي مَرْوَانَ .

Reference: Sunan Abi Dawud 4646In-book: Book 42, Hadith 4646

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