Muawiya
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Muawiya
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: Was Mu’awiya seeking Qisas for the death of Uthman?
- Note
- Mawla Ali (as) did not deem Uthman to have been killed innocently
- Who Killed Uthman?
- The Opinion of Mawla Ali (as) upon Uthman and Mu’awiya
- Mu’awiya’s refusal to help Uthman during the Seige
- Mu’awiya and his supporters
- Mu’awiya exploited people’s ignorance and greed to attain support
- Mu’awiya falsely claimed that Ali (as) killed Uthman so as to garner the support of the Syrians
- Abu Sulaiman’s attempts to misinterpret the words of Imam Ali (as) as a means of defending Mu’awiya
- Imam Ali (as) questions Mu’awiya’s motives
- The Imam can only implement Qisas
- Fatwa of Shah Abdul Aziz – one that fights Ali (as) is a kaafir
- Mu’awiya’s actual motive was power
- The agreement between Mu’awiya and Amr bin Aas is clear proof that the motive was power not avenging Uthman’s murder
- Mu’awiya’s testimony further proves his real motive was power not vengeance for the slain Uthman
- Mu’awiya Thaneeh’s condemnation of his grandfather eludes the fact that he fought Imam ‘Ali (as) for power
- Abu Sulaiman questions the justice of Imam Ali (as)
- Mu’awiya did not apply Qisas against Amr bin Aas
- Misuse of a Shia tradition by the Nawasib to support Uthman
- Reply One: The authenticity of the tradtion
- “This tradition is Muzamir and Musquf”
- Reply Two: The actual ‘Uthman’ mentioned in the tradition and the Nasibi distortion
- Reply Three: The actual attributes of the followers of Uthman bin Affan recoded in Sunni texts
- Chapter Three: Mu’awiya’s appointment of Yazeed as his successor
- Did Mu’awiya want to make Yazeed just a Crown Prince or Khalifa?
- Mu’awiya made Yazeed his Khalifa during his lifetime
- Mu’awiya forced people to give bayya to Yazeed
- Please see our article: Yazeed (L’aeen)
- Mu’awiya bribed people to give bayya to Yazeed
- Mu’awiya killed all those who posed a hurdle for him making Yazeed Khalifah
- Why did Imam Hussain (as) refuse to give bay’a to Yazeed?
- Mu’awiya’s development of lineal succession
- Yazeed the ‘protector of afflictions’
- Appraisal of ‘pious’ Yazeed by the Nasibi author
- Ibn Kathir’s comments on Yazeed the drunkard
- Al Bidayah Wal Nihayah (Urdu), Vol 8 Page 1169, Nafees Academy Karachi
- Mu’awiya also knew that Yazeed drank alcohol
- Ibn Hajar Asqalani’s views regarding those that praise Yazeed
- Imam Ahmad issued Takfeer against drunkard Yazeed
- Allamah Mahmood Alusi’s takfeer against Yazeed
- Qadhi Thanaullah Paani Patti’s takfeer against Yazeed
- Various other Sunni Ulema did takfeer against Yazeed and have deemed it permissible to curse him
- An appeal to our Sunni brethren
- Chapter Four: The callous killing of the Sahaba including Hujr bin Adi (ra) and of other innocent Shias
- Comment
- Wasn’t Hujr (ra) a Sahabi?
- Reply
- Allah (swt)’s displeasure at those who killed Hujr (ra)
- Was Hujr (ra) a troublemaker?
- Reply One – Dishonesty committed by the author in order to absolve Muawiyah bin Hind
- Reply Two – Imam Hasan Basri’s testimones that Hujr was a great man and his maglining Muawiyah for the murder of Hujr (ra)
- Reply Three- Imam Muhammad bin Sirin testified to Hujr (as) being virtuous
- Reply Four– Imam Dhahabi, Imam Ibn Habban and Ibn Asakir’s testimonies that Hujr (ra) was an honorable, pious and worshiper
- Reply Five – The families of Abu Bakr and Umar condemning Mu’awiya for killing Hujr proves that he was not a trouble maker in their eyes
- Comment
- Reply Six – The Sahaba deemed the killer of Hujr (ra) to be worthy of being cursed
- “If it is asked: Why the Sahaba object on him?
- Reply Seven – Even the hardline Nasibi companion of Muawiyah was on saddened at the murder of Hujr (ra)
- Reply Eight – The Sunni Ulema’s recognition that Hujr was Shaheed (a martyr) proves that he was not a baghi (rebel)
- Reply Nine – Prophet’s prediction proves that Hujr bin Adbar (rh) and Malik bin Ashatar (rh) are amongst the Momineen
- Abu Sulaiman defends the method of killing
- Mu’awiya killed Malik bin Ashthar (ra)
- Mu’awiya killed the sahabi Amr bin al-Hamiq
- Muawiya kept Shia women as prisoners in dungeons
- Mu’awiya killed the two children of Ubaydullah ibn Abbas
- Abdurehman bin Hasaan was buried alive by Muawiyah
- Mu’awiya gave an order to slaughter the Shi’a
- During Mu’awiya’s brutal reign, Shia Muslim women were made slaves and were sold in the market place
- The punishment for killing a Momin from the Qur’an
- Chapter Five: The peace treaty with Imam Hasan (as)
- Reply One
- Reply Two – The Prophet (s) saw the Banu Umayya climbing his Pulpit and this saddened him
- Reply Three – Imam Hasan deemed Mu’awiya an unjust thief
- Reply Four – Imam Hasan (as) deemed the Khilafath to be his own right
- A Nasibi excuse and its reply
- Reply Five – By making peace Imam Hasan (as) was able to show the Ummah that Mu’awiya was a hypocrite
- Reply Six – The peace treaty in the eyes of the Sunni Ulema
- Reply Seven – Mu’awiya was not well intentioned when he made peace with Imam Hasan (as)
- Reply Eight – Imam Hasan (as) made peace on account of pressure
- Reply Nine – If you see Mu’awiya on my pulpit kill him (hadeeth)
- Reply Ten – Banu Zarqa cannot be Khalifas
- Reply Eleven – Imam Hasan (as) made peace to protect Muslim lives, property and honour, and thus provided an example for those people faced with difficult choices
- Reply Twelve – According to Sunnies it is permissible to make peace with unjust people
- Reply Thirteen – The Tulqa cannot be khalifas
- Reply Fourteen – Mu’awiya took the Caliphate by force
- Reply Fifteen– Imam Hasan (as) said he had the right to kill Mu’awiya
- Reply Sixteen – Textual evidence from Quran
- Reply Seventeen – Infallible ones under pressure from common men
- The bay’a given to Mu’awiya
- Reply One – The meaning of bayya
- Reply Two – Nawasib have stupidly assumed that peace means bayya
- Mu’awiya’s poisoning of Imam Hasan (as)
- Who was Ja’da bint Asha’ath bin Qays?
- Now, how did Asha’ath bin Qais repay this favor?
- Reasons behind the poisoning of Imam Hasan (as)
- Mu’awiya’s pleasure upon hearing about the death of Imam Hasan (as)
- Nasibi conjecture about Imam Hasan (as) receiving stipends from Muawiya’s government
- Reply one
- Reply Two
- Reply Three
- Reply Four
- Reply Five
- Nasibi accusation on Aqeel bin Abi Talib
- Reply One – We have already provided an array of replies about accepting stipends from a tyrant
- Reply Two – Aqeel always held Ali (as) to be on the right path as compared to his views on Muawiya
- Reply Three – The Bani Umaya fabricated texts to cast aspersions over Aqeel’s relationship with Ali (as)
- Reply Four – Aqeel didn’t participate in battles alongside Ali bin Abi Talib (as) due to illness
- Refuting the Nawasib claim that there existed a reciprocal warmth, respect and affection between Imam Hussain (as) and Muawiya
- Muawiya’s will for his son Yazeed
- Muawiya threatened to kill Imam Hussain (as)
- Concluding this chapter
- Chapter Six: Mu’awiya the baghi (rebel)
- Ali (as) was the Imam and rightful caliph of the time
- Muawiya faught Ali (as), the Imam and rightful caliph of the time
- It was incumbent to fight alongside Imam Ali (as)
- Abdullah bin Umar’s regret he didn’t fight the baghi Mu’awiya
- The early Sahaba fought alongside Imam Ali (as)
- Abu Sulaiman’s refusal to describe Mu’awiya as a baghi
- Defining baghi (rebell)
- The Sunni scholars deemed Muawiyah as a baghi, Khariji and tyrant
- Mu’awiya’s rebellion was in violation of the Qur’an
- Mu’awiya’s rebellion was in violation to the Sunnah of Rasulullah (s)
- Mu’awiya was from amongst Qasateen (those refrained from giving bayya to Imam e Haqq)
- Mu’awiya was amongst the Fajireen (perpetrators of debauchery)
- Abu Sulaiman’s plea that both parties were believers
- To rebel against the Imam is tantamount to Zina in a Mosque
- If a Baghi dies in war don’t perform his funeral prayers
- One who rebels is from the Party of Satan
- One who fights Imam Ali is Zaalim and Faasiq
- Testimony of the Sahabi Amar Yasir (ra) that Mu’awiya and his cohorts were misguided ones
- By fighting Maula ‘Ali, Mu’awiya fought against the truth, the Qur’an and Rasulullah (s)
- Muawiya’s opposition was motivated by his hatred of Imam ‘Ali (as)
- Answering Abu Sulaiman’s criticism that Imam ‘Ali (as) should have left Mu’awiya alone
- Answering Abu Sulaiman’s criticism that Imam ‘Ali (as) started the battle, contradicting the Qur’an (astaghfirullah)
- Imam ‘Ali (as) fought for interpretation of the Qur’an in the same way Rasulullah (s) fought for the revelation of the Qur’an
- The martyrdom of Ammar bin Yasir was comprehensive proof that Mu’awiya was a baghi
- Ammar deemed those that fought Imam ‘Ali (as) to be the same munafiqs that tried to assassinate Rasulullah (s)
- Abu Sulaiman’s defence of ijtihad
- Reply One
- Reply Two – A Mujtahid has to be a pious / just man
- Reply Three – Mu’awiya was not a mujtahid
- Reply Four – Imam Ali (as)’s verdict that Mu’awiya should be killed as he has no grounds to oppose him
- Reply Five – Maula Ali’s expose on Mu’awiya’s character destroys the defence of ijtihad
- Reply Six – Abdullah bin Umro’s regret that he fought alongside Mu’awiya at Sifeen
- Rasulullah’s condemnation of Mu’awiya and Amr bin Aas refutes the defence of ijtihaad
- Abu Sulaiman’s verdict that both parties were on truth and cannot be criticised
- It is narrated on the authority of ‘Abdullah b. Mas’ud that
- Imam Taymeeya al Nasibi’s Fatwa that killers of Amar lead people to Hell
- Chapter Seven: Mu’awiya instituted the bid’ah of cursing Imam Ali (as)
- Mu’awiya asks Sa’d to curse Ali (as)
- Al-Nawawi offered lame excuses to defend Mu’awiya
- 1st critique – Nawawi’s misguided innovation in Islamic Sharia to defend the Sahaba
- Incidents of Sahaba Cursing/Abusing each other
- 2nd critique – Al-Nawawi applied this insane logic, so as to defend Mu’awiya (i.e. no textual proofs)
- 1st Hadith that Al-Nawawi & Co. Concealed
- 2nd Hadith that Al-Nawawi & Co. Concealed
- Al Bidayah wa al Nahayah, Volume 7 page 341, Chapter: The virtues of Ali
- 3rd Hadith that Al-Nawawi & Co. Concealed
- 4th tradition that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed
- 5th tradition that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed
- 6th tradition that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed
- 7th Tradition, that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed
- 8th Tradition that Al-Nawawi & Co. concealed – Imam Hasan (as) asking Muawiya not to curse Ali (as) from the pulpits
- Al-Abar fi Khabar min Ghabar, Volume 1, page 18 Chapter: Year 37 the battle of Sifin
- Comments
- Sunni scholars rejected Al-Nawawi’s conjecture pertaining to Sahih Muslim’s episode
- Shaykh Wajihuddin Umar bin Abdulmuhsin
- Imam Muhammad bin Shahab al-Zuhri
- Shaykh Musa Shahin Lashin
- Allamah Muhammad bin Abdulhadi al-Sindi (d. 1138 H)
- Sharh Sunnan ibn Majah, Kitab al-Muqadma, Chapter: Merits of Ali bin Abi Talib (ra)
- Muhammad al-Amin al-Hurarri
- Ibn Tamiyah
- The Governors of Mu’awiya started cursing Mawla Ali (as) upon the instructions of Mu’awiya
- Muawiya’s Governor Marwan bin Hakam cursed Imam Ali (as)
- Mu’awiya’s Governor Mughira bin Shu’ba (la) cursed Imam Ali (as)
- Sunan Nasai al-Kabeer, Kitab al-Manaqib, Volume 7 Hadith 8148, Merits of Abdurehman bin Auf
- Mu’awiya’s Governor Busr Bin Artat cursed Maula Ali
- Muawiya’s Governors Ziyad and Kathir ibn Shahab cursed Imam Ali (as)
- Mu’awiya would curse Ali after the Friday Sermon and this bid’a became a tradition during the Banu Umayya reign
- Mu’awiya refused to follow the peoples’ demands that he abolish the practice of cursing Ali (as)
- Mu’awiya changed the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) to ensure that the people heard the cursing of ‘Ali (as)
- Faiz al Bari Sharah Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1 page 722 No. 954, Kitab al-Eidayn
- Testimonies of prominent Sunni scholars that Ali bin Abi Talib (as) used to be cursed from pulpits
- Learned Scholar Ahmad Zaki Safwat’s comments on the Governors of Mu’awiya
- Imam of Ahle Sunnah Awzai also reviled Ali (as) as a means of acquiring gifts from the Umayad rulers
- The admission by al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi that Mu’awiya cursed Ali (as)
- The admission by leading Deobandi Ulema that Mu’awiya introduced the bid`ah of cursing Ali (as)
- Learned Sunni Scholar Abu Zahra
- Taha Hussain
- Shaykh Hassan Saqqaf
- Imam of Ahl’ul Sunnah Muhammad Abdul Hai Lucknawi
- Qadhi Thanaullah Paani Patti al-Uthmani
- Imam Ibn Hazm Andlasi
- Jawami al Seerah
- Imam Muhammad Zahed al-Kawthari
- Maula Ali (as) was cursed for ninety years
- Summary of references
- Conclusions
- Rasulullah (s) cursed those who commit bidah
- Allamah Abdul Qadir Gilani’s Fatwa against Ahl’ul bidah
- Allamah Sa’duddeen Taftazani’s fatwa that Ahl’ul bidah should be cursed
- Cursing Ali (as) is tantamount to cursing Allah (swt)
- Fatwa of al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz – those that curse Ali are kaafir
- Fatwa of Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz – whoever disrespects Ahl’ul bayt (as) is a murtad
- An appeal to justice
- Chapter Eight: The phantom merits of Mu’awiya
- Was Mu’awiya the writer of the revelation?
- Reply One – Prominent Ulema of Ahl’ul Sunnah have not counted Mu’awiya as writer of the revelation
- Reply Two- Mu’awiya wrote letters not the revelation
- Reply Three- A writer of the revelation became a kaafir
- Was Mu’awiya a Hadi?
- A Hadi is one who guides his followers in accordance with the Qur’an and Sunnah
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ declared Ziyad, the bastard son of Abu Sufiyan as his real brother contradicting the Sharia
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ made decisions that contradicted the Shar’ia on inheritance
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ contradicted the Shar’ia on Blood money
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ contradicted the Shar’ia on the distribution of war booty
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ drank a prohibited substance
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ used to smuggle alcohol
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ used to sell idols to polythiests helping them to worship the idols
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ undresses and inspects the body of a naked woman
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ tells the people to consume haraam items and kill each other
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ took interest
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ made changes to the Eid Salat
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ reduced the number of Takbeers from daily prayers
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ reduced Iqamah from daily prayers
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ issued a Fatwa deeming it permissible for a man to marry two sisters at any one given time
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ abandoned to apply the mandatory punishment for theft in Islam
- If a right hand parts from its left?
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ and his Nasibi adherents abandoned the Sunnah due to their hatred of Ali (as)
- Sharah Sunan Nasai
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ and his fellow Nasibi rulers of Bani Ummayah abandoned to recite ‘Bismillah’ loudly due to their hate towards Ali (as)
- Comments
- Mu’awiya ‘the Hadi’ wore prohibited items despite the fact that he was aware that Rasulullah (s) deemed them haraam
- An appeal to justice
- Rasulullah (s) criticised those that praise Ahl’ul Bidah
- Rasulullah (s) made three Dua’s, one that was rejected
- Rasulullah (s) even prayed for Abu Jahil to be guided
- Not all of Rasulullah’s prayers were accepted
- Allah (swt) never guides a wrongdoer
- The narrator of this ‘Hadi’ hadith is not a reliable authority
- Not a single hadith in praise of Mu’awiya is Sahih
- Rasulullah’s advice for Mu’awiya is also a fabrication
- Reply One – This verse merely states Allah (swt) emboldened the believers on that day
- Reply Two – The verse only benefits believers in the true sense of the word not those that stood in the ranks of the Muslims but were pagans and hypocrites
- Chapter Nine: Abu Sulaiman’s plea of clemency for Mu’awiya
- Chapter Ten: Was Mu’awiya a Momin or Munafiq?
- The sign of a Munafiq is hatred of ‘Ali (as)
- Fada’il al-Sahaba, Volume 2 page 549 (Published in Makkah Mukkarmah, Saudi Arabia)
- It is not permissible to refer to a Munafiq as Sayyidina
- ‘Ali (as)’s testimony – Mu’awiya is my enemy
- An enemy of Ali (as) is an enemy of Allah (swt)
- One who fails to accept ‘Ali as his Maula is not a Momin
- Chapter Eleven: The ‘true’ merits of Mu’awiya bin Hind
- The meaning of Mu’awiya
- Love and hatred of Ali is the difference between one being legitimate and illegitimate
- Ayesha’s testimony about methods of Nikah during the time of Jahiliyya
- Mu’awiya bin Hind was the product of a combined Nikah
- Ayesha’s testimony that Hinda committed Zina
- The ‘virtues’ possessed by one born illegitimately
- One born illegitimately can not be a Khalifa
- One who fights the rightful Imam is a Fasiq
- One who turns his back on the right path is a Zaalim and Fasiq
- Mu’awiya’s Conquests
- Mu’awiya’s declaration that Ziyad was the son of ‘Abu Sufyan is proof that he was a fasiq
- It is a religious duty to expose the deeds of a fasiq
- A Zaalim Ruler
- Praising a fasiq leads to incurring the wrath of Allah (swt)
- Muawiya was wicked and is cursed
- Mu’awiya was a Nasibi
- Fatwa of Imam of Ahl’ul Sunnah, Shah Abdul Aziz that Nawasib are equal to dogs and pigs
- Appraisals of Mu’awiya
- Appraisal of Mu’awiya by Rasulullah (s)
- First appraisal – Rasulullah (s) cursed Mu’awiya’s stomach
- Nasibi excuses for the Prophet’s curse on Muawiya’s stomach
- Reply One
- Reply Two
- Reply Three
- Reply Four
- Reply Five
- Reply Six
- Second appraisal – Rasulullah (s) cursed Mu’awiya, his brother father and Amr bin Aas
- Third appraisal – Rasulullah (s) cursed Mu’awiya and Amr bin Aas
- Fourth appraisal – Rasulullah (s) cursed Mu’awiya, his father Abu Sufyan and his son Yazeed
- Ffith appraisal – Mu’awiya shall die a kaafir
- Sixth appraisal – Mu’awiya shall be raised with a different Ummah on the day of Judgment
- Seventh appraisal – Mu’awiya shall be in the deepest part of Hell Fire
- Eighth appraisal – Mu’awiya and Amr bin al-Aas can never gather for a good cause
- Ninth appraisal – Mu’awiya is Kafir
- Tenth appraisal – Mu’awiya shall be killed if tried to sit on Prophet’s pulpit
- Umar’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- First appraisal
- Second appraisal
- Maula Ali (as) appraisal of Mu’awiya
- First appraisal
- Second appraisal
- Third appraisal
- Fourth Appraisal
- Fifth Appraisal
- Ayesha’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- First appraisal – Mu’awiya’s Government compared by Ayesha to Firawn (Pharoah) and other Kaafirs (Pagans)
- Second Appraisal – Ayesha cursed Mu’awiya and Amr bin Aas
- Saad ibn Waqqas’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- Mu’awiya the second’s appraisal of his grandfather Mu’awiya
- Qays bin Sa’d bin Ibada’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- These words suffice to destroy the Nasibi appraisals of Mu’awiya. Or should we question by the truthfulness of the Sahaba?
- Abu Hurrayra’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- Muhammad bin Abi Bakar’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- Samra bin Jandab’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- Miswan, appraisal of her husband Mu’awiya
- Mamun Abbasi’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- The people of Madina’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- Ibn Katheer’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- Imam Shafiyee’s appraisal of Mu’awiya that his testimony is unacceptable
- Imam of Ahle Sunnah al-Atiqi al-Baghdadi’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- Imam of Ahle Sunnah Ali bin Ja’ad’s appraisal of Mu’awiya
- Mu’awiya – According to the Imams of Ahlulbayt (as)
- A German scholar’s recognition of the contribution made by Mu’awiya
