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ightful Khalîfa (hadrat ’Uthmân). According to Shiite books,
during hadrat Abû Bekr’s caliphate, hadrat Alî made hadrat
Fâtima mount an animal and took her out for a tour in Medîna. In
the time of the second Khalîfa Sahâbîs would take the Zawjât-itâhirât
(the Messenger’s pure wives) on hajj.
31- “Rasûl-i-ekrem ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ stroked
Ammâr bin Yâser’s face and said, ‘You will be slain by a group of
rebels.’ This report shows that Mu’âwiya and his coterie were
rebels. When Ammâr was martyred, those who knew about this
report deserted Mu’âwiya and sided with Aliyy-ul-Murtadâ. Bâghî
means rebel, insurgent,” he says, and adds that he borrowed this
information from Qisâs-i-Enbiyâ.
We have looked up the matter in the book Qisâs-i-Enbiyâ. We
have not seen any writing stating that those who heard about
hadrat Ammâr’s death transferred to hadrat Alî’s side. The book
writes that the combat became even more heated and some
differences began in hadrat Alî’s army. The hadîth-i-sherîf about
hadrat Ammâr, which is quoted by this author, too, proves that
hadrat Mu’âwiya and other Sahâbîs like hadrat Amr Ibni Âs were
not disbelievers. All these people had joined the Messenger of
Allah in his Jihâd against unbelievers.
It is stated in Qisâs-i-Enbiyâ: The same year when Mekka was
conquered, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ wrote a letter
to Ja’fer, the ruler of Ammân, and sent it through hadrat Amr Ibni
Âs ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’.
When the people of Tâif became Muslims, Rasûl-i-ekrem sent
Abû Sufyân bin Harb to Tâif and had him break the idol called
Lat. Abû Sufyân and his sons Yezîd and Mu’âwiya were
Rasûlullah’s secretaries. Khâlid ibni Zeyd Abâ Ayyûb al-ansârî
and Amr Ibni Âs, too, were two of the honourable people who
served as secretaries (to the Messenger of Allah). Amr Ibni Âs was
appointed as the army commander by the Messenger of Allah.
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ also appointed Abû
Sufyân as governor of Najrân and his son Yezîd as a judge in
Teyma ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhumâ’.
Hadrat Amr Ibni Âs was in Ammân when Rasûlullah passed
away. Upon his arriving in Medîna, the Sahâba crowded around
him and asked him to tell them what he had seen on his way. He
said, “I saw that Arabs living in places from Ammân to Medîna
had already become renegades and ready to fight us.” Hadrat Abû
Bekr sent forth different groups of Sahâbîs against different
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