The Importance of Abu Bakr in the Qilafah

"For us we affirm this incident 100 percent it is in our books We have no problems affirming it but our interpretation is very different," he said. "From our perspective that was never intended to be the Qilafah and what is this what demonstrates?" Al-Aqaw's last days of his life always emphasized Abu Bakr, according to al-Shafi'i.