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Nonetheless, the reviling of the Umayyads of ʿAlī I is well-established
according to many scholars. Ibn Taymiyyah mentions that the greatest issue the
people held against the Umayyads was their disparaging of ʿAlī I. 1 And al-
ʿAynī 2 has described their era as one in which they would curse him upon the
pulpits. 3 Others have also averred the same. 4
It is not far-fetched that hatred for ʿAlī I and disillusionment with him was
something deeply rooted in the hearts of many of the later Umayyads who did not
live to see many of the major events. Their situation was thus no different than
that of the people of Shām who grew up hating ʿAlī I. Hence it is narrated that
when ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbbās, 5 whose title was Abū al-Ḥasan, visited ʿAbd
al-Malik ibn Marwān the latter said to him:
غير اسمك وكنيتك فال صبر لي على اسمك وكنيتك
Change your name and your title, for I cannot bear you name and your
title.
1 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 8/239.
2 Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAyntābī, Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAynī. A Ḥanafī jurist,
a ḥadīth master and a historian. He was born in 726 A.H. He was appointed as a judge in Cairo and
was dismissed several times. Thereafter he presumed over the judiciary of the Ḥanafī judges. He was
eloquent in both Turkish and Arabic. He passed away in 855 A.H. Some of his works are: ʿUmdah al-Qārī,
Sharḥ al-Hidāyah, Sharḥ al-Kalim al-Ṭayyib. See: Shadharāt al-Dhahab 7/286; al-Badr al-Ṭāliʿ 2/294; al-Aʿlām
7/163; Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn 12/150.
3 ʿUmdah al-Qārī 24/194.
4 Al-Ikhtilāf fī al-Lafẓ wa al-Rad ʿalā al-Jahmiyyah wa al-Mushabbihah p. 42; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah
9/234; Taḥdhīr al-ʿAbqarī min Muḥāḍarāt al-Khuḍrī 12/150.
5 ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbbās al-Hāshimī, Abū Muḥammad al-Madanī. He was born the night ʿAlī
I was martyred in the year 40 A.H. and was thus named after him and given his title. Thereafter
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān changed his title. He became famous as al-Sajjād (the one who prostrates a
lot) due to performing excessive Ṣalāh. He was amongst the most handsome man of Quraysh. He has
been deemed reliable by several scholars. He passed away in Balqāʾ in Shām in 117 A.H. His narrations
appear in al-Adab al-Mufrad of al-Bukhārī, the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim of the four Sunans. See: Ḥilyah al-Awliyāʾ
3/207; al-Muntaẓam 7/181; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 43/37; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 7/312.
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