فصل [ " في طرف مما جرى في السقيفة " ] . قال شيخنا المفيد في الإرشاد : واغتنم القوم الفرصة لشغل علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام برسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وانقطاع بني هاشم عنهم بمصابهم برسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله ، فتبادروا إلى ولاية الأمر واتفق لأبي بكر ما اتفق لاختلاف الأنصار فيما بينهم ، وكراهية الطلقاء والمؤلفة قلوبهم من تأخر الأمر حتى يفرغ ( فرغ خ م ) بنو هاشم فيستقر الأمر مقره ، فيبايعوا أبا بكر لحضوره المكان ، وكانت أسباب معروفة تيسر للقوم منها ما راموه ، وليس هذا الكتاب موضع ذكرها ، فنشرح القول فيها على التفصيل .

Section [on part of what took place at the Saqifa]. Our shaykh al-Mufid said in the Irshad: The people seized the opportunity of 'Ali b. Abi Talib's being occupied, peace be upon him, with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his Family, and of the Banu Hashim's being cut off from them by their affliction in the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his Family. So they hastened to take charge of the affair; and there fell out for Abu Bakr what fell out, because of the disagreement of the Ansar among themselves, and the dislike of the freed men and those whose hearts were reconciled for the matter to be delayed until the Banu Hashim should be free, so that the affair might settle in its proper place. So they pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr because he was present on the spot. There were known causes by which what they aimed at was made easy for them, and this book is not the place to mention them, that we should set out the discussion of them in detail.

وقد جاءت الرواية : أنه لما تم لأبي بكر ما تم وبايعه من بايع : جاء رجل إلى أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام وهو يسوي قبر رسول الله ( ص ) بمسحاة في يده ، فقال له : إن القوم قد بايعوا أبا بكر ووقعت الخذلة للأنصار لاختلافهم وبدر الطلقاء بالعقد للرجل خوفا من إدراككم الأمر ، فوضع عليه السلام طرف المسحاة على الأرض ويده عليها ، ثم قال : * ( بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ، ألم أحسب الناس أن يتركوا ، إلى قوله تعالى ما يحكمون ) * 1 ، وقد كان جاء أبو سفيان إلى باب رسول الله ( ص ) وعلي عليه السلام

And the narration has come that when there was accomplished for Abu Bakr what was accomplished, and those who pledged allegiance had pledged, a man came to the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, while he was levelling the grave of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his Family, with a spade in his hand. He said to him: The people have pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr; the Ansar were abandoned to failure through their disagreement, and the freed men hastened to conclude it for the man, fearing that you should attain the affair. So he, peace be upon him, set the edge of the spade upon the ground with his hand upon it, and then said: “In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Alif Lam Mim. Do people suppose that they will be left” — to His words, “what they judge.” [1] And Abu Sufyan had come to the door of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his Family, while 'Ali, peace be upon him,