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Likewise it is not known that the Banū Umayyah sought revenge from
their descendants due to the killings their fathers had committed after
having grounded themselves in power and having full authority to do so.
Similarly, ʿUmar I was very stern against all the polytheists; there was
no one who denigrated them and offended them as boldly as ʿUmar I,
not forgetting him fighting them with his sword. So why did they not do
anything to him when he assumed leadership and why did they instead
listen and obey? And why would they thereafter then rebel against ʿAlī
I who was a Hāshimī, considering that the Banū Hāshim were higher
in rank than the Banū ʿAdī? 1
Furthermore, how foolish would it be for them to wait for him to become
the Khalīfah and earn the support of the people and their loyalty and then
rise to seek revenge from him, and prior to that do nothing to him during
the time of ʿUthmān I when most authority was with them?
Moving on, many of the people who fought ʿAlī I were not descendants
of those who ʿAlī I had killed, like the people of Syria and the other
partisans of Muʿāwiyah I. 2 So why is this claim being made regarding
the Banū Umayyah specifically?
Also, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān, 3 and alongside him the Umayyads, fought
ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr very ferociously till eventually the odds turned
in their favour. In spite of this no one has claimed that they fought him
1 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 6/321.
2 Ibid. 7/460.
3 ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam al-Umawī, Abū al-Walīd. One of the great rulers of the
Banū Umayyah. He was born in Madīnah in 26 A.H. He ranked amongst the jurists of Madīnah and
their scholars before he assumed leadership. He was known for his strategizing and intelligence and
excessive shedding of blood. After seven years of conflict people united upon him. He passed away in
Damascus in 86 A.H. al-Bukhārī has narrated his narrations in al-Adab al-Mufrad. See: al-Thiqāt 5/119;
Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 37/116; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 4/246; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 6/373.
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