Re: Muawiya Sahab
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I will quote a reference to start with :
The Sunni scholar al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi in Tauhfa Ithna Ashariyya page 191 Chapter 7 states:
“It is recorded in Sahih hadith that when someone praises a bad character person, Allah (swt) gets upset with him”.
In this post i will put few references that wud put some light on Personality and his Beleieve.
Mu’awiya on Siege of Hazrat Usman’s House***
**Imam Tabari says, it was related to me by Ja’far- 'Amr and 'Ali- Husayn- his father- Muhammad bin Sa’ib Kalbi:
When Uthman saw what happened to him and how many of people had been sent against him, he wrote Mu’awiyah bin Abi Sufyan in Syria: “In name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. To proceed: The Medinese (i.e. Uthman reffering to People of Madina and not of Egypt) have become unbelievers (Kafirs), they have abandoned obedience and renounced their oath of allegiance. Therfore send to me the Syrian soldiers who are at your disposal, on every camel you have, whether docile or stubborn”.
When Mu’awiya got the letter, he delayed action on it, for he did not wish to differ openly with the Companions of Messenger of God, since he knew that they concurred [on this matter].
When Uthman became aware of the delay, he wrote to seek and from Yazid bin Asad bin Kurz and the Syrians, he stressed his rightful claims upon them, and mentioned Almighty God’s commandment to obey the Caliphs. **
History of Tabari, English Edition, vol. 15, page 185 (Translated by R. Stephan Humphreys)
Mua’wiya Cursing Mola Ali a.s
When Mu’awiya went for Hajj, he held the hand of Sa’d bin Abi Waqas and said to him: ‘Oh Abi Ishaq! We are the people who abandoned Hajj because of wars until we almost forgot some of its laws, so we performed Tawaf (circumambulation) to imitate your Tawaf’. When they completed (the hajj), he (Muawiya) entered upon him (Sa’d) in a conference room and sat with him on his sofa, then he (Muawiya) mentioned Ali bin Abi Talib and cursed him. He (Sa’d) said: ‘You brought me to your house and made me sit on your sofa and then you have begun to curse Ali?’
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Al Bidayah wa al Nahayah, Volume 7 page 341, Chapter: The virtues of Ali](كتاب: البداية والنهاية **|نداء الإيمان)
Allamah Shibli Numani writes:
“Traditions were first formed in book form in the days of Ummayads, who, for about 90 years, throughout their vast dominions stretching from the Indus in India to Asia Minor and Spain, insulted the descendants of Fatima and got Ali openly censured in Friday sermons at the mosques. They had hundreds of saying coined to eulogise Amir Muawiya.”
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Siratun Nabi Vol.1 page 60](http://www.answering-ansar.org/answers/muawiya/sirat_un_nabi.jpg)
Prophet s.a.w on Mu’awiyas Beleive and Khilafat
Waq’at Sifeen page 217 and Tarikh Tabari Volume 8 page 186 that Abdullah ibne Umar narrates that he heard Rasulullah say:
**“Mu’awiya shall not die on the path of Islam”. **
Ibn Katheer in al Bidaya wa al Nihaya, Volume 8 page 133 records this Hadeeth:
**“If you see Mu’awiya on my pulpit then kill him” **
Mu’waiya a Nasibi ?***
A modern day Pakistani Hanafi scholar Maulana Sayyid Lal Shah Bukhari in “Isthakhlaaf ai Yazid” page 216 admitted:
“The founder of Nasibi ideology was Mu’awiya”.
Al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi declared in “Tauhfa Ithna Ashariyya” page 6:
“The Ulema of Ahl’ul Sunnah regard the enemies of Ali, the Nasibis as the worst party that recites the Shahada. We regard them as equivalent to dogs and pigs”
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Wasalam
Aqeel
Note: The picture links in this post and all the references r taken from Answering-ansar.org, I cudnt open the picture links on my home computer… I beleive its my computer, i hope the links r working for u
Shahadat
