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When certain people turned back from Islam, Allah brought forth those whom He loves and who love Him. With their support al-Ṣiddīq fought the apostates, and by means of them Abu Bakr—and after him ʿUmar—overcame Khosrow and Caesar.
He also said to ʿUthmān: “Allah will clothe you in a garment; if they demand that you remove it, do not take it off.”
Both Ṣaḥīḥ collections transmit, on the authority of Abū Mūsā, that he said:
“While the Messenger of Allah—may peace and blessings be upon him—was in one of the gardens of Medina, reclining and prodding the ground with a stick,
فَلَمَّا ارْتَدَّ مَنِ ارْتَدَّ عَنِ الْإِسْلَامِ أَتَى اللَّهُ بِهَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَهُ، فَقَاتَلَ الصِّدِّيقُ بِهِمْ أَهْلَ الرِّدَّةِ، وَغَلَبَ بِهِمْ أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَعُمَرُ كِسْرَى وَقَيْصَرَ.
وَقَالَ لِعُثْمَانَ:
إِنَّ اللَّهَ مُقَمِّصُكَ قَمِيصًا فَإِنْ أَرَادُوكَ عَلَى خَلْعِهِ فَلَا تَخْلَعْهُ» .
وَفِي الصَّحِيحَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ:
«بَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي حَائِطٍ مِنْ حَوَائِطِ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَهُوَ مُتَّكِئٌ يَرْكُزُ بِعُودٍ