Bukhari 2462 — The Saqifa account

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«حين توفي الله نبيه إن الأنصار اجتمعوا في سقيفة بني ساعدة، فقلت لأبي بكر: انطلق بنا إلى إخواننا من الأنصار… فجئناهم في سقيفة بني ساعدة»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Mentions: The meeting at Saqifa· Saqifa of Banu Sa'ida· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· Sa'd ibn Ubada· The Ansar

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Medina· The meeting at Saqifa· The death of the Prophet· Umar's Friday sermon on the stoning verse and on Abu Bakr's pledge· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· Sa'd ibn Ubada· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Abu Bakr leads the prayers during the final illness

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Sahih al-Bukhari

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Medina

City in the Hejaz to which the Prophet migrated in 622 CE; site of the Prophet's Mosque and the first Muslim community. The Prophet declared it a sanctuary as Abraham declared Mecca — its bounds 'between 'Ayr and Thawr' (or 'to Uhud' in the reading Abu 'Ubayd and al-Hazimi preferred) and 'between its two lava fields'; within them hunting and tree-cutting are forbidden and the bloodwit for unintended killing is heavier. Samhudi counts nearly ninety-five names for it, among them Tayba, Taba and Yathrib.