Incident of Saqifa: Difference between revisions

[[Sa'd b. 'Ubada]]—the leader of [[Khazraj]]—who was sick and had a fever, gave a speech among some people of Ansar ([[Aws]] and [[Khazraj]]) in Saqifa Bani Sa'ida about the virtues of Ansar and their advantages over [[Muhajirun]]. It is said that such speeches in those conditions were supposed to be against activities by some Muhajirun, rather than against the Prophet's (s) will (such as [[Hadith Yawm al-Dar]], [[Hadith al-Manzila]], and [[Ghadir al-Khumm]]). Ansar assembled in Saqifa Bani Sa'ida in order to protect their own position, but they instead led to the greatest sedition throughout the history of Islam that gave rise to a lot of chaos in the Islamic community.

There are different accounts of where [[Abu Bakr]] was when the Prophet (s) passed away, but on the most widely accepted view, he was in Sanh, where [[Salim b. 'Ubayd]] gave him the news of the Prophet's (s) demise.