There are seven conditions regarding those suited to the Imamate: 1. Justice together with all its conditions 2. Knowledge which equips them for Ijtihad in unforeseen matter and arriving at relevant judgments 3.Good health in their faculties of hearing, sight and speech such that they may arrive at a sound assessment of whatever they perceive 4.Sound in limb, free of any deficiency which might prevent them from normal movement; 5.A judgment capable of organising the people and managing the offices of administration; 6.Courage and bravery enabling them to defend the territory of Islam and mount the Jihad against the enemy 7.Of the family of the Quraysh, because of the text (of a prophetic hadith) on the matter and by virtue of consensus.. No credibility should be given to the opinion of Dirar who is alone in saying that the post is open to all; Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, used the testimony of the Prophet. may the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him, against the Ansar on the occasion of Saqifah when the latter defended the succession of Sad ibn Ubadah to whom they had given allegiance, in his saying , The Imams are of the Quraysh As a result of this the Ansar renounced their exclusive claim to this Imamate and renounced the claim to share the rights of the Quraysh explicit in their saying From amongst us an Imam and from amongst the Quraysh an Imam- submitting thereby to this narration and affirming its content and accepting the following reply of Abu Bakr From us the amirs and from you the Wazirs The Prophet may the peace and blessings be upon him said Give precedence to the Quraysh and do not put others before them There is not the least doubt or controversy attached to this impeccable text. [al-Ahkaam as-Sultaniyyah]
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