حَدَّثَنَا سَوَّارُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ عَنْ سَفِينَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ خِلَافَةُ النُّبُوَّةِ ثَلَاثُونَ سَنَةً ثُمَّ يُؤْتِي اللَّهُ الْمُلْکَ أَوْ مُلْکَهُ مَنْ يَشَائُ قَالَ سَعِيدٌ قَالَ لِي سَفِينَةُ أَمْسِکْ عَلَيْکَ أَبَا بَکْرٍ سَنَتَيْنِ وَعُمَرُ عَشْرًا وَعُثْمَانُ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ وَعَلِيٌّ کَذَا قَالَ سَعِيدٌ قُلْتُ لِسَفِينَةَ إِنَّ هَؤُلَائِ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام لَمْ يَکُنْ بِخَلِيفَةٍ قَالَ کَذَبَتْ أَسْتَاهُ بَنِي الزَّرْقَائِ يَعْنِي بَنِي مَرْوَانَ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 4646
Narrated Safinah: The Prophet ﷺ said: The Caliphate of Prophecy will last thirty years; then Allah will give the Kingdom of His Kingdom to anyone He wills. Saeed told that Safinah said to him: Calculate Abu Bakr's caliphate as two years, Umar's as ten, Uthman's as twelve and Ali so and so. Saeed said: I said to Safinah: They conceive that Ali was not a caliph. He replied: The buttocks of Marwan told a lie.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020