Documents of the Right Word

eauties. Their purpose was to put the Messenger of Allah into
financial straits. Yet hadrat ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ seized the
opportunity, marrying hadrat Ruqayya divorced by Utba virginal
as she was and attaining the honour of becoming Rasûlullah’s sonin-law.
Hadrat ’Uthmân was very good looking. He was blonde
haired and white complexioned. And he was much richer than
Abû Leheb’s bastards. Another person who tormented
Rasûlullah very much was Uqba bin Ebî Muayt. The Messenger
of Allah was performing namâz in the Mesjîd-i-harâm, when this
villain came and put animal stomachs on his blessed head. At
another time he attacked him and squeezed his blessed throat
with his blessed shirt. Hadrat Abû Bekr, who was passing by, saw
this and helped the Messenger of Allah, reproaching the
unbeliever, “Are you killing a person who says: Allah is my
Rabb?” Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ named the
unbelievers being there and supplicated to Allâhu ta’âlâ, “Yâ
Rabbî! Put these people into a hole of torment in the ground!”
Abdullah Ibni Mes’ûd relates, “In the Holy War of Bedr I saw all
these people being killed and thrown into a hole in the ground.
Only Uqba bin Ebî Muayt was killed on his way back from the
Holy War.” As is seen, the unbelievers named Utayba and Uqba,
who persecuted Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ very
much, did not live long enough to see the times of Khalîfas. They
went to Hell before. The allegation that the Khalîfa promoted
them to caliphate is an acknowledgement of ignorance.
Yes, hadrat Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ appointed his brother
Utba’s son as the governor of Medîna. Yet his name was Walîd bin
Utba. After Walîd became governor in the year 57, he respected
hadrat Huseyn and many other Sahâbîs very highly. In fact, when
Yezîd became Khalîfa, he dismissed Walîd from office for failing
to execute his order that the people of Medîna be made to obey
him and setting hadrat Huseyn free.
It is obvious that this writing in the autumn magazine is an
aspersion cast on hadrat ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’. For hadrat
’Uthmân appointed his step brother, that is, his brother from the
same mother, as Emîr of Kûfa. Yet, contrary to this author’s
allegation, he was not Uqba bin Walîd. He was Walîd bin Uqba.
That is, he was the son of the unbeliever named Uqba. He writes
the name the other way round. This Walîd became a Believer at
the conquest of Mekka. He was not the person who committed the
despicable deed. In the ninth year (of the Hegira) the Messenger
of Allah gave him the duty of collecting zakât from (the tribe of)
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