Imam AbuBakr RH and the King of Rome

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

The king of rome purposely designed a door very short so that everyone who enters would bow down to him, but Imām Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (رحمه الله) humiliates the roman king:

❝When al-Bāqillānī attended, he noticed the trap (of the slanted door), so he turned his body backwards and bended over, then entered through the door while walking backwards, allowing his bottom to face the roman king, instead of showing his face!

At this point, the king knew that he was infront of a cunning person. Al-Bāqillānī entered and greeted them, but he did not give salāms to them (due to the prohibition of the Rasūl on initiating ahlul-kitāb with salāms), then he turned to the major priest and said to him:

“How are you doing, and how is your family and children?”

The roman king bursted in anger and said, “Don’t you know that our priests do not marry, nor do they beget children?”

So Abū Bakr (al-Bāqillānī) said, “Allāhu akbar! You disassociate your priests from marriage and having children, then you accuse your lord of being married to Maryam and begetting ‘Īsa as a child?”

So the king bursted in more anger! Then the king said, without any shame, “What is your opinion about what ‘Ā’isha did?”

Abū Bakr replied, “If ‘Ā’isha (رضي الله عنها) has been accused (the hypocrites and Rāfidah accused her of zinā), then Maryam has also been accused (the jews accused her of zinā), and they are both pure chaste women.

However, ‘Ā’isha got married and she didn’t beget a child, but as for Maryam, she begot a child without a marriage! So who is more deserving of the FALSE accusation, and God Forbid them from that, may Allāh be pleased with them both?”

So the king became so crazy!

The king asked, “Did your Prophet fight battles?!”

Abū Bakr replied, “Yes”.

The king asked, “Did he used to fight on the frontline?!”

Abū Bakr replied, “Yes”.

The king asked, “Did he used to gain victory?!”

Abū Bakr replied, “Yes”.

The king asked, “Did he used to suffer defeats?!”

Abū Bakr replied, “Yes”

The king said, “Astonishing! A prophet who suffers defeat?”

Abū Bakr replied, “A god who gets crucified?!”

So the one who disbelieved become shockingly dumbfounded!!❞

— Refer to “Tārīkh Baghdād” (5/379) by Al-Khatīb al-Baghdādī (رحمه الله).