Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

From the changes that he effected, two which are related to the topic are worth
mentioning:
1. Discarding the denigration of ʿAlī I upon the pulpits. 1 He was a person
who did not possess such love for the world that would drive him to do such
a grave action. 2 He thus supplanted it with the mention of the four Khulafāʾ
and a supplication of pleasure in order to obliterate that evil practice. 3 He
also added the recitation of the following verse in the sermon:
إِناَّ‏ اللّٰهَ‏ يَأْمُ‏ رُ‏ بِالْعَ‏ دْ‏ لِ‏ وَ‏ اإلْ‏ ‏ِحْ‏ سَ‏ انِ‏ وَ‏ إِيْتَاءِ‏ ذِي الْقُ‏ رْ‏ بَى ٰ وَ‏ يَنْهَ‏ ى ٰ عَ‏ نِ‏ الْفَ‏ حْ‏ شَ‏ اءِ‏ وَ‏ الْمُ‏ نْكَ‏ رِ‏ وَ‏ الْبَغْ‏ يِ‏ يَعِظُ‏ كُ‏ مْ‏
لَعَ‏ لاَّكُ‏ مْ‏ تَذَ‏ كاَّ‏ رُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏
Indeed, Allah orders justice and good conduct and giving to relatives, and forbids
immorality and bad conduct and oppression. He admonishes you that perhaps you
may be reminded. 4
He also included the merits of ʿAlī I in the sermon even after the
remonstration of a group of the detractors of ʿAlī I. 5 And due to there
being people in various areas who cursed ʿAlī I upon the pulpits and
elsewhere, 6 he wrote these instructions to all the areas of the Khilāfah. 7
This was received well by the people and they praised him immensely for
it. 8 In fact up to present day, these insertions continue to be read in the
sermons. 9
1 Al-Badʾ wa al-Tārīkh 6/46.
2 Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 4/315.
3 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 4/160. Ibn Taymiyah started this point by saying, “And it is
alleged…”
4 Sūrah al-Naḥl: 90.
5 Ibid. 4/164.
6 Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī 2/305; Simṭ al-Nujūm al-ʿAwālī 3/326.
7 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 6/201. Also see: Rūḥ al-Maʿānī 14/220.
8 Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 4/315.
9 Tārīkh al-Khulafāʾ p. 243.
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