He said: “I know the move that will checkmate Ali.” He then explained the move to Abdur Rahman. And before Umar died, I gathered from his manner and attitude that he too was haunted by the same fear.”Īmr bin Aas was much more skillful than Abdur Rahman or anyone else at the kind of game the latter was trying to play. What is troubling me is the fear lest Ali becomes the caliph. Today is the last day, and I still have found no answer to our problem. “I have been so perplexed in this matter that I have known no rest for three days. That evening, Abdur Rahman, the king-maker, called on his old friend, Amr bin Aas, explained to him his predicament, and added: This meant that the choice was narrowed down to these two men, one of whom had to become khalifa, but which one? In these private meetings, he asked each candidate whom he would like to see as khalifa if he himself were not elected. On the third and the last day, Abdur Rahman paid a visit to each member of the committee in his own house. The discussions of the other candidates during the first two days also ended in stalemate.
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By withdrawing his candidacy, he won extra leverage with the other candidates, and cast himself in the role of a “king-maker.”Ībdur Rahman held a series of meetings with other candidates in an attempt to find a satisfactory solution of the problem but his efforts bore no fruit. “I shall acknowledge you as chairman of the electoral committee if you give a pledge that you will not be a slave to your own lusts, and that your decision will be taken only to win the pleasure of God and His Messenger.”Ībdur Rahman readily gave his pledge for doing so, and thus became the chairman of the committee.
When others insisted that he too should agree, he said to him: Other members agreed but Ali hesitated to give Abdur Rahman any extra powers. He, therefore, quietly developed a strategy of his own, and then told the committee that he would withdraw his name from the list of candidates if it would, in return, allow him to act as chairman and coordinator of its meeting(s). In a size-up of the situation, he gathered that no one of the other five candidates was willing to withdraw his name from the contest, and everyone was determined to press his claim vigorously. Amr bin Aas and Mughira bin Shaaba, also appeared at the door of the house of Miswar, eager to take part in the proceedings of the committee but the pickets of Abu Talha did not let them enter.īecause of the “special powers” Umar had given him, Abdur Rahman bin Auf considered himself the key figure of the electoral committee. Abu Talha Ansari began his three-day long vigil. The electors began their parleys in the house of Miswar bin Makhrama – the nephew of Abdur Rahman bin Auf.
“God has given honor to Islam through you (the Ansar), and now you take your 50 armed men to watch the members of the electoral committee, and do not let them disperse without choosing a khalifa which they must do within three days.” Just before his death, Umar called Abu Talha Ansari, and said to him:
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