A Fabricated Hadith on The Virtue of Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه)

[عن عائشة أم المؤمنين:] بينا رأسُ النبيِّ – ﷺ – في حجري في ليلةٍ ضاحيةٍ؛ إذ قلتُ: يا رسولَ اللهِ ! هل يكون لأحدٍ من الحسنات عددُ نجومِ السماءِ؟ ! قال: نعم،عمرُ، قلت: فأين حسناتُ أبي بكرٍ؟ ! قال: إنما جميعُحسناتِ عمرَ كحسنةٍ واحدةٍ من حسناتِ أبي بكرٍ.

الألباني (١٤٢٠ هـ)، تخريج مشكاة المصابيح ٦٠١٣ • نقل السيوطي عن الخطيب أنه قال: “حديث موضوع” وأقره.

‘Aaishah (radiyallahu ‘anha) says, “I asked Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) ‘does anyone have good deeds equal to the number of stars (in the sky)’?

He ﷺ replied, ‘yes, ‘Umar. I asked, ‘What about the good deeds of Abu Bakr’? He replied, ‘All the good deeds of ‘Umar are like one good deed of Abu Bakr” (Razin)

[Translation adapted from https://hadithanswers.com/the-good-deeds-of-abu-bakr-and-umar-radiyallahu-anhuma/]

Shaikh Al-Albani in his checking of Mishkat Al-Masabeeh (#6013) said that Imam As-Suyooti said that this is a Mawdu (Fabricated|False) narration.

[Courtesy software: الباحث الحديثي sunnah.one]

Note: Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه) and Umar (رضي الله عنه) have numerous virtues mentioned in other authentic Ahadith and those are sufficient for us. We are not in need of weak and fabricated narrations Walhamdulillah.

You may read the chapters on ‘Virtues of Abu Bakr’ and ‘Virtues of Umar’ from Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim for some of the authentic narrations on their great virtues(Fadail).