Hadith: If someone comes to you seeking to undermine your solidarity or disrupt your unity when you have agreed on a man (as your leader), kill him
عن عرفجة رضي الله عنه قال: سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: "من أتاكم وأمرُكُم جَمِيْعٌ على رجل واحد، يُريد أن يَشُقَّ عَصَاكُم، أو يُفَرِّقَ جَمَاَعَتَكُم، فاقتُلُوهُ".
[صحيح] - [رواه مسلم]
المزيــد ...
‘Arfajah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If someone comes to you seeking to undermine your solidarity or disrupt your unity when you have agreed on a man (as your leader), kill him."
Sahih/Authentic. - [Muslim]
This Hadīth is about fighting rebels who want to divide the Muslims after they have unified and agreed on a ruler. It also indicates that if the Muslims have agreed to appoint a specific caliph or ruler and someone wants to depose the man they have agreed on, it is incumbent upon them to resist this person, even if that results in killing him, in order to avert the harm and prevent the bloodshed of Muslims.
Benefits from the Hadith
- It is obligatory to listen and obey the Muslim ruler, and it is prohibited to revolt against him.
- If someone revolts against the ruler who is accepted by Muslims at large, he should be killed, regardless of his status or nobility.
- According to the Hadīth’s apparent meaning, the ruling applies to the case when revolt is launched by either one person or a group of people; they should be killed. However, if the group is powerful, and its members revolt against the ruler is based on a reasonable cause, they are deemed aggressors. But if there is no such cause and they merely want to seize power, then they should be treated like highway robbers.
- It urges Muslims to unite and keep away from disunity and dissension.
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- Hadith: There shall be rulers in charge of you, and you will approve and disapprove. So anyone who hates shall be absolved, and anyone who denies shall be safe, except for those who approve and comply. They said: 'O Messenger of Allah, shall we not fight them? He replied: No, so long as they establish prayer among you
- Hadith: There is no one whom Allah has put in a position of authority and he dies on the day he dies cheating those under his authority, but Allah will forbid Paradise for him
- Hadith: Whoever gives up obedience and separates from the Muslim community and then dies has died a death like that of the pre-Islamic era of ignorance
- Hadith: Be patient, for no time will come but will be followed by a worse one until you meet your Lord
- Hadith: You will eagerly seek out a position of authority, but it will be a source of regret on the Day of Judgment. How excellent is the wet nurse, and how evil is the weaning one
- Hadith: O ‘Abdur-Rahmān ibn Samurah, do not ask for a position of authority, for if you were granted such authority upon your request, you would be left (to manage it) unaided.