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‘Muhammad is the Messenger of God, Abu Bakr is the Veracious [Siddiq], ‘Umar, the martyr, and ‘Uthman, pious and merciful.’(*[1])We uuncovered him and looked: he was dead and lifeless, yet he was foretelling ‘Umar’s martyrdom even before he had succeeded to the Caliphate.
- ↑ *Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 320; ^Alê al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 649; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa’l- Nihaya, vi, 157-8.