Sahaba - The Blessed

THE EARLIEST FITNA IN
ISLAM
INTRODUCTION
Allâhu ta’âlâ has mercy on all people in the world. He sends
useful things to everybody. As a kindness to those Believers who
deserve Hell (on account of the sins they have committed in the
world), He will forgive them and bless them with Paradise. He,
alone, creates every living being, keeps them always in existence,
and protects all against fears and horrors. Trusting ourselves to the
honourable Name of such an almighty being as Allah, we begin to
write this book.
Praise and gratitude be to Allâhu ta’âlâ! Prayers and
salutations be to His most beloved Prophet, Muhammad ‘alaihissalâm’!
Benedictions be to the pure Ahl-i-Bayt of that exalted
Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’, and to each and
every one of his faithful Sahâba ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum
ajma’în’!
It is stated as follows in a hadîth-i-sherîf which is written in the
abridged version of Tadhkira Qurtubî: “Fitna will break out
among my Sahâba. For the sake of the sohbats they have had with
me, Allâhu ta’âlâ will forgive those who will partake in the fitna.
People after them, however, will rekindle the fitna by repeatedly
blathering on the events; they will go to Hell on account of their
undue concern.” The great Islamic scholar Imâm Rabbânî Ahmad
Fârûqî Serhendî ‘rahmatullâhi ’aleyh’, who passed away in India in
1034 [1624 A.D.], sent letters to every country in order to teach the
creed of Ahl as-Sunnat and the true way of Islam, as well as the
fact that Tasawwuf was not something distinct from the Islamic
faith. His letters, more than five hundred, were compiled and
printed in three volumes. The thirty-sixth letter of the second
volume enlarges on the fitna among the Sahâba.
It was during the time of the third Khalîfa Hadrat ’Uthmân
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