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How authentic is the narration reported from Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq: "O people, whoever worshipped Muhammad, then Muhammad has died; and whoever worshipped Allah, then Allah is Alive and does not die..."?

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The phrase: "Whoever worshipped Muhammad, Muhammad has died, and whoever worshipped Allah, Allah is Ever-Living and never dies" is established and authentic, narrated by Al-Bukhari and others. As for the rest of the phrases, such as: "And indeed Allah has advanced to you in His command; so do not supplicate Him in anguish, and indeed Allah has chosen for His Prophet what is with Him over what is with you...", they do not have a sound chain of narration. Some historians have mentioned them without a chain of narration, and they were reported with a very weak chain of narration from Sayf ibn Umar al-Tamimi, who is abandoned in Hadith by the consensus of critics. Ibn Abi Hatim ruled that the Hadith narrated with his chain of narration is invalid.

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