Re: what is the definition of Ahl ul Bayt
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his prediction became true and eventually we see hazrat ali became caliph . beside we see that his tenure was not an ideal period in the islamic history filled with so many controversaries and war between different group of muslims
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the greed of quraish was responsible for those wars and they have all been predicted by Prophet so they are all part of deen.
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. administration was not that gud (by no mean i want to say that hazrat ali was responsible for all this however he cuold not set the things right as hazrat abu bakar did when majority of the arab bacame prosteliyzed after the death of prophet but abu bakar succeed in setting the thing rights).
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who said majority of arabs left islam ?, only a few tribes and they contaoined some minor sahaba who apostasized.It was outstanding achievement of abu bakr but the scale of conflict is different
in ali's time all of syria and good part of makkah revolted against him that was a bigger deal than riddah just compare size of armies.
roughly 80 to 90 thousand soldiers on each side according to most accounts.
Also look at the number of sahaba who died between 10 to 36 AH ( ali's time) the list is huge.
Also in uthman's time all the good work of abu bakr and umar's time had been undone and there was chaos in the empire which ali inherited.
some drawbacks of ali was that he did not listen to some of his good advisors from kufa and relied on his family too much who betrayed him like abdullah b jafar.Secondly ali was too harsh with some of his iraqi supporters at times.This at times made them hesitant to follow ali.
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chaos remain there untill the hazrat hasan did baith of hazrat muavia and things settled down and muslim got united again.
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muslim never united since the time of uthman,
and if like mauvia so much and criticize ali so much why dont u accept muawiyah as ur rightly guided caliph.
what muawiyah did set the stage for the second fitna killing of hussain b ali, Harra and revolt of ibn zubair.