Question

Anas ibn Malik (radiyallahu ‘anhu) said: Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “I said to Jibril when he took me on the Night Journey (al-Isra) up to heaven: “O Jibril, will my ummah be brought to account?” He said: ‘All of your ummah will be brought to account except Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. On the Day of Resurrection, it will be said to him: ‘O Abu Bakr, enter Jannah’. He will say: I will not enter it until those who loved me in the previous world enter it with me.'”

 

Answer

This narration is recorded in Tarikh Baghdad.

(Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 2, pg. 482/483)

However, ‘Allamahs Dhahabi and Ibnul Jawzi (rahimahumallah) have declared the Hadith unauthentic.

(Mizanul I’tidal, vol. 4, pg. 75, number: 6912, Lisanul Mizan, vol. 7, pg. 34, number: 6589 and Al ‘Ilalul Mutanahiyah, vol. 1, pg. 190/190, Hadith: 295-296)

The Hadith is not suitable to quote.

 

And Allah Ta’ala Knows best.

Answered by: Mawlana Suhail Motala

Approved by: Mawlana Muhammad Abasoomar