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He did not have even an inferior quality date nor did he have his fill. 158. The straitened circumstances of the first and the second. Caliphs, Hadhrat Abu Bakra and Hadhrat Umara are also alluded to with pride by these adversaries who state of Hadhrat. Abu Bakra. 'The Caliph of this Great Prophet dies and is buried in old worn out clothes! Yes! His first Caliph Abu Bakr, the true. Friend!159. As regards to the personal material wealth of Hadhrat Umarra, the second Caliph, Ehsan Elahi Zaheer states: 'His second Caliph did not have untorn [sic] clothes to wear notwithstanding that his rule extended over as vast as an area as the combined empires of the Roman Emperor Caesar and. Chosroe [sic] of Persia. Once when he put on two new untorn sheets, one of his subjects stood up asking: Where did you get this from. 160. Yet, historical records indicate that Hadhrat Abu Bakra was an extremely successful businessman and a man of some fortune. . He is stated to have owned as much as 40,000 pieces of silver at the time of his conversion to Islam. Hadhrat Umarra was also a man of some means. Hence, if such decline in family fortune could be suffered by the greatest man ever born in the history of mankind, Hadhrat Muhammadsa and also two of his most beloved and cherished friends, then how does Hadhrat. Ahmad's as family decline reflects adversely upon his life and mission as a prophet of God - particularly when, in the first instance, this decline in the family's fortune was to be a matter of pride rather than humiliation. This is clearly evident from the passage in Hadhrat Ahmad'sªs Tohfa e Qaisariyya, a part of 58. Ibid. , Zaheer, p. 90 " 59. Ibid. , p. 93 134 60. Ibid.