Volume 9, Book 84, Number 59:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
When the Prophet died and Abu Bakr became his successor and some of the Arabs reverted to dis –
belief, ‘Umar said, “O Abu Bakr! How can you fight these people although Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have
been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, ‘and
whoever said, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’, Allah will save his property and his
life from me, unless (he does something for which he receives legal punishment) justly, and his ac –
count will be with Allah?’ “Abu Bakr said, “By Allah! I will fight whoever differentiates between
prayers and Zakat as Zakat is the right to be taken from property (according to Allah’s Orders). By
Allah! If they refused to pay me even a kid they used to pay to Allah’s Apostle, I would fight with
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them for withholding it.” ‘Umar said, “By Allah: It was nothing, but I noticed that Allah opened Abu
Bakr’s chest towards the decision to fight, therefore I realized that his decision was right.”