It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both); he said: I came to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) during his caliphate.

It is also narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: During the caliphate of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), wealth came to us from Bahrain.

It is narrated from Abidah; he said: Uyaynah bin Hisn and al-Aqra' bin Habis came to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "O Successor of the Messenger of Allah!"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Tariq bin Shihab (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and I took part in military expeditions during the caliphate of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: We were with Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) when he suddenly began to weep. We said: "O Successor of the Messenger of Allah, what is this weeping?!"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: All the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) agreed and chose Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) as their caliph. (Here begin the virtues of the Commander of the Believers, Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him).)

Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab bin Nufayl bin Abd al-Uzza bin Riyah bin Abdullah bin Qurt bin Razah bin Adi bin Ka'b bin Lu'ayy bin Ghalib bin Fihr. His mother was Hantamah bint Hashim bin al-Mughirah bin Abdullah bin Umar bin Makhzum, and his maternal grandmother was al-Shifa' bint Abd Qays bin Adi bin Sa'd bin Sahm. His kunyah is Abu Hafs. He was made caliph on the very day Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away, and that was Tuesday, with eight days remaining in the month of Jumada al-Akhirah (the 22nd).

It is narrated from Muhammad bin Ishaq that Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away, and he appointed Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) as caliph, two years, three months and twenty-two days after the passing of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Zirr; he said: I went out with the people of Madinah on the day of Eid, and I saw Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) walking barefoot. He was an elderly man, bald, of wheat-brown complexion, able to work equally well with both hands (a'sar yasar), and tall, standing out among the people as though he were on a mount. He was wrapped in a Qatari cloak and was saying: "O servants of Allah, emigrate and do not abandon (the religion). And let none of you eat a rabbit that he has struck with pebbles or stones (by which it was not slaughtered); rather, let spears and arrows be the means of slaughter for you." Imam al-Hakim said: The reason for his being given the title "Commander of the Believers" was this:

It is narrated from Ibn Shihab that Umar bin Abd al-Aziz asked Abu Bakr bin Sulayman bin Abi Hathmah why, in the time of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him), "The Khalifah (successor) of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)" used to be written, and then Umar al-Faruq (may Allah be pleased with him) at first had "The Khalifah of Abu Bakr" written; so who was the first person to write "Amir al-Mu'minin (Commander of the Believers)"? He said: Al-Shifa' (may Allah be pleased with her), who was among the early women Muhajirun, narrated to me that Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to the governor of Iraq that he should send him two men who were strong and sensible, so that he could get information from them about Iraq and its people. So the governor sent Labid bin Rabi'ah and Adi bin Hatim. When they reached Madinah, they made their mounts kneel in the courtyard of the mosque and entered the mosque, and there they met Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him). They said: O Amr, seek permission for us to meet the "Amir al-Mu'minin (Commander of the Believers)". Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) said: By Allah, the two of you have used exactly the right title: he is the Amir (commander) and we are the Mu'minin (believers). So Amr bin al-As quickly got up, went to Sayyiduna Umar and said: As-salamu alaykum, O Amir al-Mu'minin! Sayyiduna Umar said: O Ibn al-As, how did this title occur to you? My Lord knows that you will have to give an account of what you have said. He said: Labid bin Rabi'ah and Adi bin Hatim have come; they made their mounts kneel in the courtyard of the mosque, then they came to me and said: O Amr, seek permission for us to meet the Amir al-Mu'minin. By Allah, the two of them have called you by exactly the right title: we are all believers and you are our commander. The narrator said: So from that day this title became established in correspondence. And al-Shifa' was the grandmother of Abu Bakr bin Sulayman.