a_27826 said :
Actually its Umar who is "supposed" to have said that the Prophet is in the delirious state to the "supposed" demand of Pen and Paper of the Prophet.
What he [H.Umar] said some 1300 years ago...you're repeating it today, How does that make you any different than him ??
But let not that stop us to speculate what he wanted to be written down.
I just said @ above post that he wanted to write something about faith and Imamat as per ismailism is the central part of our faith.
BTW, did not Prophet live few more days? He could easily got somebody else like Ali and some others to dictate the important thing?
Good question !!!...But din't our rasool[saw] already mentioned people @ ghadeer e khum that he would be leaving two weighty things. These being the Quran, and the Ahl al-Bayt (the progeny of Muhammad)
The hadith that I copied @ previous posts does not stop with prophet[saw] telling everybody to leave his place
Narrated 'Ubaidullah: Ibn 'Abbas used to say,
"It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise."
Whatever is left of quran...it orders muslims to "obey/take whatever messenger of allah[swt] gives you"...I wonder what made H.Umar decide that the quran is sufficient for him while ignoring alhe bait once our rasool[saw] left this material world ??
One of the reasons can also be that, when our rasool[saw] said he wanted to write down something by which people wont go astray:
He might be wanting to write the name of person/person's who will be in-charge of Quran's compilation =Ahle Bait [because the 2 can't be seperated]
The only thing that could lead the whole ummah on a wrong track is the wrong interpretation or compilation of holy quran or missing surahs/aayat's....And results can be seen today.
FYI - Do you know that the 1st 2 caliphs were able to write down their will despite being in great pain ???
H.Abu Bakr fainted while dictating his will where as H.Umar had stab wounds but still they both considered it necessary to name their successor