The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 542
Seal of the Prophets - Volume II 542 regarding the Khilāfat of Ḥaḍrat ‘Uthmān ra. 1 For this reason, no Muslim levelled an allegation against his Khilāfat. Khilāfat of the Banū Umayyah was not a True Islāmic Khilāfat Now remains the question of the Kings of the Banū Umayyah and Banū ‘Abbās. There is no doubt, that there form of Khilāfat was opposed to true Islāmic teaching. Research scholars have never considered their form of leadership to be in line with Islāmic practice, for this reason, it cannot be presented as an argument. Narrations of history and Ḥadīth explicitly mention that on the basis of erroneous advice, Amīr Mu‘āwiyyah introduced an innovation in the faith. In other words, he practically snatched the right of election from the majority and appointed his own son Yazīd as his successor. Most of the prominent Companions who were alive at the time opposed him and advocated that it was against the teachings of Islām to seek an oath of allegiance for the son of a Khalīfah who was already alive. 2 However, Amīr Mu‘āwiyyah did not pay heed and with public support, appointed Yazīd as his successor. As a result, when Amīr Mu‘āwiyyah passed away, although the Companions who were alive at the time remained silent with the thought of preventing unrest, they did not accept the leadership of Yazīd in their hearts, as indicated in history and Ḥadīth. As a matter of fact, Ḥaḍrat Imām Ḥusain ra and ‘Abdullāh bin Zubair ra considered this practice to be so greatly at odds with the Islāmic teaching that despite an extreme state of weakness, they stood up in contestation to Yazīd. Ultimately, it was in this very struggle that Imām Ḥusain ra was martyred in the lifetime of Yazīd and ‘Abdullāh bin Zubair ra 1 Mishkātul-Maṣābīḥ, By Waliyyudīn Abū ‘Abdillāh Muḥammad bin ‘Abdillāh, Volume 2, p. 425, Kitābul-Manāqibi, Bābu Manāqibi ‘Uthmāna Raḍiyallāhu, Al-Faṣluth-Thānī, Ḥadīth No. 6077, Dārul- Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2003) 2 * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābut-Tafsīr, Tafsīru Sūratil-Aḥqāf, Bābu Walladhī Qāla Li-Wālidaihī Uffin Lakumā. . . . . , Ḥadīth No. 4827 * Fatḥul-Bārī Sharḥu Ṣaḥīḥil-Bukhārī, By Al-Imām Aḥmad bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 8, pp. 740- 741, Kitābut-Tafsīr, Tafsīru Sūratil-Aḥqāf, Bābu Walladhī Qāla Li-Wālidaihī Uffin Lakumā. . . . . , Under Ḥadīth No. 4827, Qadīmī Kutub Khānah, Ārām Bāgh, Karachi * Al-Kāmilu Fit-Tārīkh (Tārīkhu Ibnil-Athīr), By ‘Izzuddīn Abul-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Muḥammad Ibnul- Athīr, Volume 3, pp. 349-355, Sanatu 56, Dhikrul-Bai‘ati Li-Yazīda Bi-Wilāyatil-‘Ahdi, Dārul- Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2006) * Tārīkhur-Rusuli Wal-Mulūk (Tārīkhuṭ-Ṭabarī), By Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad bin Jarīr Aṭ-Ṭabarī, Volume 6, pp. 153-155, Thumma Dakhalat Sanatu Sittin Wa Khamsīna / Dhikru Khabaril-Bai‘ti Li- Yazīda Bi-Wilāyatil-‘Ahdi, Dārul-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, Second Edition (2002)