Mishkat al-Masabih #3520
The Offices of Commander and Qadi
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported God’s Messenger as saying, “When allegiance is sworn to two caliphs kill the second of them.*
Muslim transmitted it.
* Some interpret ‘kill’ here as meaning to fight with. The tradition is directed against the possibility of two Caliphs holding power at the same time, even though the areas might be quite distinct.
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This hadith is #3520 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of The Offices of Commander and Qadi. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.