Kaleef K. Karim

Few days ago I wrote an article on the Ridda wars, in relation to an incident in the life of the first Caliph Abu Bakr Siddiq. We found that the delegation were sent over to Abu Bakr to argue not pay any Zakat. As such the group(s) who did not want to pay Zakat, few days later attacked the Muslim community.

We established from the article, that disbelief in of its self was not the reason why Abu Bakr fought against these Zakat with-holders. We found out that after arguing not pay Zakat, they decided to attack Madinah, killed Muslims and at the same time aiming to overthrow the government. See the full article here: “Hadith Without Context Is Meaningless: Abu Bakr’s ‘Apostasy’ Wars”

I got some feedback/concerns from some brothers why I did not delve and explain the conversation between the delegation, Abu Bakr…