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Indeed, he was one of the Sahabah and a highly competent ruler on top of that. He created the centralised multi-faith civil service that enabled the Islamic state to effectively control its territories from Damascus without falling apart for several hundred years.
He had one major failing, however, which was that he was responsible for endind Khilafat and introducing Malikat (Kingship) when he had his son, Yazid, appointed to be his successor, and thus laying the path for tyranny.