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English translation
2262. Abū Bakrah said: “Allāh restrained me with something that I heard from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ. When Kisra was destroyed, he said: ‘Who did they have to succeed him?’ They said: ‘His daughter.’ So the Prophet ﷺ said: ‘A people will never succeed who give their leadership to a woman.’” He said: “So when ‘Aishah arrived – meaning in Al-Baṣrah – I remembered the saying of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, so Allāh restrained me by it.”
(Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is [Ḥasan] Ṣaḥīḥ.
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Commentary
What we learn from the Ḥadīth is that it is not permissible in Islam to choose a woman as ruler. To do so would be a wasteful bargain leading only to loss. It was for this reason that Abū Bakrah ؓ did not take sides in the conflict known as the Battle of the Camel. He not only kept himself aloof of the civil war, but also did whatever he could to restrain others from taking part in it.
