Documents of the Right Word

Mu’âwiya’s son), was expecting to succeed his father to caliphate.
He sent some poison to hadrat Hasan’s wife Ja’da, saying, “If you
poison Hasan with this, I shall marry you and overwhelm you with
jewellery and property from head to foot.” Falling for this false
promise, the woman administered poison several times. Yet
hadrat Hasan recovered each time. He would not say anything
though he knew that it was his wife who was doing this. He
separated his bed and began to take good care of his food. One
night Ja’da secretly entered his room and put diamond powder in
his drinking glass. When hadrat Hasan drank the water at night,
his stomach began to break into pieces. In his dying bed, hadrat
Huseyn, (his brother), tried in vain to make him name the person
who had given him the poison. Hadrat Hasan asked, “Would you
retaliate if you knew who it was?” “Certainly,” was the brother’s
answer. “I would kill him.” Upon this, hadrat Hasan said, “The
punishment he has deserved will suffice,” without hinting in the
least that it was his wife’s perfidy. He passed away forty days later.
He was buried near his mother hadrat Fâtima ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ
anhâ’ in Bakî’ cemetery. Imputing the murder committed by
Yezîd to his father is a felony no less wicked than the murder
itself. For this slander is identical with imputing the disbelief of
Nûh’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ son Ken’ân (Canaan) to his father, the
exalted Prophet.
36- He says, “Mu’âwiya, as a stage for his extremely perfidious
and cruel future aims, took into his family an extremely cruel,
treacherous and murderous villain, namely Ziyâd bin Ebîh, his
father Abû Sufyân’s illegitimate child. By appointing this villain’s
son, Ubeydullah, a master of banditry, as a governor as he himself
was still alive, he intentionally, purposely prepared him for the
planning and execution of the horrendous Kerbelâ slaughter. How
can these tricks and schemes be errors of ijtihâd?” He states that
he is quoting these statements from Qisâs-i-Enbiyâ.
Unfortunately, Qisâs-i-Enbiyâ contains some disrespectful and
ill-mannered criticisms and comments made about Mu’âwiya. The
insolent words quoted above could not find their way through
Cevdet Paşa’s ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ aleyh’ faithful pen, nor was he
the kind of person to let them foul the pages of his book. Let us see
how he expresses these events in Qisâs-i-Enbiyâ:
The people of Fâris revolted against hadrat Alî. They refused
to pay (taxes called) Ushr and Kharâdj. In the thirty-ninth year of
the Hegira, hadrat Alî appointed Ziyâd bin Ebîh, who was an
official of Bayt-ul-mâl in Basra, as governor of the provinces of
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