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which case they still remained Muslims internally and externally and their sins
were no different than the sins of other Muslims), 1 or bringing about innovations in
the Dīn: like delaying the Ṣalāh to its end time, appointing two Muʾadhdhins (callers
to Adhān), giving Adhān and Iqāmah for the two ʿĪds, bringing the Khuṭbah forward
in both of them, raising the hands when supplicating in Jumuʿah, discarding
the Takbīr (i.e. saying it softly) when going into lower postures and saying it
aloud when coming up from them, and performing four Rakaʿāt in Minā, etc. 2
Despite these being deficiencies in them, but when compared to the Abbasids
they upheld the Sunnah to a greater extent than them; the Sunnah was much
more prevalent and strong in the era of the former than in the era of the latter. 3
Likewise, despite all these innovations, it is an undeniable fact that the Dīn had
a very emphatic presence in much of their doings, like in Jihād, where they have
made everlasting contributions. Islam was much more glorious in their times
than in the times that followed; Jihād was never fully systematically carried out
after the fall of their empire. 4
Ibn Kathīr states:
كانت سوق الجهاد قائمة في بني أمية ليس لهم شغل إل ذلك،‏ وقد علت كلمة اإلسالم في مشارق الرض
ومغاربها وبرها وبحرها،‏ وقد أذلوا الكفر وأهله،‏ وامتألت قلوب المشركين من المسلمين رعبا،‏ ل يتوجه
المسلمون إلى قطر من القطار إل أخذوه،‏ وكان في عساكرهم وجيوشهم في الغزو الصالحون والولياء
والعلماء من كبار التابعين.‏ بل كان الحسين بن علي رضي الله عنه في الجيش الذي غزا قسطنطينية
1 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 4/519.
2 The aforementioned is scattered in the following sources: Muṣannaf ʿAbd al-Razzāq 2/518; Tārīkh
al-Ṭabarī 4/9; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr: al-Tamhīd 10/243, 12/8, 16/8, 16/303, 24/239; al-Mudawwanah al-Kubrā
1/87; Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Ᾱthār 1/220; al-Taḥqīq fī Aḥādīth al-Khilāf 1/304; al-Muḥallā 1/55, 2/241, 3/140,
5/78; al-Sarakhsī: al-Mabsūṭ 2/37; Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 8/237, 239; al-Jawāb al-Ṣaḥīḥ 6/115;
Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 4/306; Fatḥ al-Bārī 2/201, 270, 8/223, 13/253; Sharḥ Fatḥ al-Qadīr 1/243; al-Fawākih
al-Dawānī 1/271; Mawāhib al-Khalīl 2/119; Ḥāshiyah al-ʿAdawī 1/492; Subul al-Salām 1/125; Ḥāshiyah Ibn
ʿĀbidīn 3/390; Ḥāshiyah al-Ṭaḥṭāwī ʿalā Marāqī al-Falāḥ 1/129; Sharḥ al-Zarqānī 1/223, 2/478.
3 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 4/130.
4 Ibid. 6/419.
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