THE STORY OF YAZID BUN MU'AWIYA BUN ABU SUFYAN (r.t.a) (Episode 2)(Final)

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ASSALAMU ALAYKUM WARAHMATULLAH WABARAKAATUHU . LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇.                                                                            *THE STORY OF YAZID BUN MU'AWIYA BUN ABU SUFYAN (r.t.a) (Episode 2)(Final)*                                                                                                                

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On the way to the city, he received the news of Ibn Aqil's death and that the Kufans had changed sides. Nonetheless, Husayn and his companions continued towards Kufa and Ibn Ziyad sent some 4,000 men to counter them. His troops forced them to camp in the desert of Karbala. In the ensuing hostilities on 10 October 680, Husayn and 72 of his male companions were killed, while Husayn's family were taken prisoner. This event caused widespread outcry among the Muslims and the image of Yazid suffered greatly.
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It also helped crystallize opposition to Yazid into an anti-Umayyad movement based on Alid aspirations, and contributed to the development of Shi'ite identity Ibn al-Zubayr started secretly taking oaths of allegiance in Mecca. Upon hearing of this, Yazid sent a silver chain to Ibn al-Zubayr with the intention of pacifying him, but it was refused. Yazid then sent a force led by Ibn al-Zubayr's own brother Amr, who was at odds with Ibn al-Zubayr, to arrest him. This force was defeated and Amr was killed.
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After Husayn's death at Karbala, Ibn al-Zubayr's influence reached Medina and Kufa. To counter the growing influence of Ibn al-Zubayr in Medina, Yazid invited notables of the city to Damascus and tried to win them over with gifts and presents. The notables were unpersuaded, and on their return to Medina narrated tales of his lavish lifestyle and practices considered by many to be impious, including drinking wine, hunting with hounds, and his love for music. The Medinese renounced their allegiance to Yazid upon hearing these details and expelled the governor and all Umayyads residing in the city.
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Yazid sent an army of 12,000 men under the command of Muslim ibn Uqba to reconquer Hejaz. By the end of August 683 Ibn Uqba approached Medina and gave the Medinese three days to reconsider, but was refused. When the ultimatum ended, a battle started in which the Medinese were defeated. After plundering the city for three days and forcing the rebels to renew their allegiance, the Syrian army headed for Mecca to subdue Ibn al-Zubayr. According to one account, the city was not plundered, only the leaders of the rebellion were executed.
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Ibn Uqba died on the way to Mecca and command passed to Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni, who laid siege to Mecca in September 683. The siege lasted for several weeks, during which the Kaaba caught fire. Yazid's sudden death in November 683 ended the campaign and threw the caliphate into disarray and civil war. Ibn al-Zubayr declared himself caliph and Iraq and Egypt came under his rule. On the foreign front, Yazid discontinued Muawiya's policy of raids against the Byzantine Empire and focused on stabilizing his borders. Islands in the Sea of Marmara were abandoned.
___*PAGE 6*___. The Syrian district of Hims was split and the new district of Qinnasrin was formed. He reappointed Uqba ibn Nafi, whom Muawiya had deposed, as governor of Ifriqiya. In 681, Uqba launched a large-scale expedition into western Africa. Defeating the Berbers and the Byzantines, Uqba reached as far as the Atlantic coast and captured Tangier and Volubilis. Despite his successes, he was unable to establish a permanent hold on these territories.

On his return eastward, he was ambushed and killed by a Berber-Byzantine force, resulting in the loss of the conquered territories.
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Yazid died on 12 November 683 at Huwwarin, aged between 35 and 39. His son Muawiya II, whom he had nominated, became caliph. His control was limited to just some parts of Syria, however, and he died after a few months from an unknown illness. Some early sources state that Muawiya II abdicated before his death. In any case, Marwan ibn Hakam became caliph afterwards and the Sufyanid caliphate came to an end. According to Wellhausen, the story of abdication by Muawiya II is likely a Marwanid fabrication, since they had sidelined Sufyanids despite there being a pact that Yazid's second son Khalid will succeed Marwan.
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Supporters of the Sufyanids were unhappy about the development and thus arose the idea of Sufyani, a descendant of Abu Sufyan who would restore the Sufyanid power in Syria. Various Sufyani claimants arose after the fall of the Umayyads at the hand of the Abbasids. Yazid is considered an evil figure by many Muslims, especially by Shias. He was the first person in the history of the caliphate to be nominated as heir based on a blood relationship, and this became a tradition afterwards.
___*PAGE 9*___. He is considered a tyrant who was responsible for three major crimes during his caliphate: the death of Husayn ibn Ali and his followers at the Battle of Karbala, considered a massacre; the aftermath of the Battle of al-Harrah, in which the troops of Yazid's general, Muslim ibn Uqba, pillaged the town of Medina; and the burning of the Kaaba during the siege of Mecca, which was blamed on Yazid's commander Husayn ibn Numayr.
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Moreover, because of his habits of drinking, dancing and hunting, and keeping pet animals such as dogs and monkeys, he is considered to have been impious and unworthy of leading the Muslim community. Despite his reputation in religious circles, academic historians generally portray a more favourable view of Yazid. According to a famous Historian, Yazid was a mild ruler, who resorted to violence only when necessary, and was not the tyrant that religious tradition portrays him to be. Michael Jan de Goeje describes him as "a peace-loving, generous prince".
___*PAGE 11*___. According to a famous man he tried to continue the diplomatic policies of his father. However, unlike Muawiya, he was not successful in winning over the opposition with gifts and bribes.  Yazid was a capable ruler but was overly criticized by later Arab historians. Some Extant Muslim histories describe Yazid as "a sinner in respect of his belly and his private parts", "an arrogant drunken sot", "motivated by defiance of God, lack of faith in His religion and hostility toward His Messenger," but these characterizations have been attributed to the hostility of the Abbasid dynasty, during whose rule the histories were written, toward the Umayyad caliphs, including Yazid.
___*PAGE 12*___. In contrast, a letter written by a Syrian in 741, before the fall of the Umayyads in 750 and about sixty years after Yazid's death, describes the Caliph as "a most pleasant man and deemed highly agreeable by all the peoples subject to his rule. Also none other than Allah azza wa jalla can judge thereby Yazid can’t be branded a *SINNER* He never, as is the wont of men, sought glory for himself because of his royal rank, but lived as a citizen along with all the common people".

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*After Yazid Death as indicated in the previous stories put the caliphate into disarray. Abdullah ibn Zubayr( son of famous Zubayr who died in battle of camel) declared himself caliph but was later killed.

It is obvious we can’t bring u all their stories(male sahabas) and among the omitted famous ones are Bilal, Khalid bun Walid, Zayd and Usamah bun Zayd(Zayd son), Zubair, Sa’ad bun Mu’adh and Hamza. Zubair was among the ten sahabas promised Jannah who died in the period of Battle of Camel. He married a daughter of Hadratul Abubakar (rta)*.
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*The other sisters(Aisha and Asma) of  his wife were married to Prophet Muhammed pbuh and Talha (rta) respectively. Khalid bun Walid played a vital role in the victory for the Quraish in Battle of Uhud but later accepted Islam. He led and won numerous battles during Abubakar caliphate but played a little role(leadership) during Umar reign as he was replaced by Abu Ubaydah (rta)*.*Sa’ad bun Mu’ad was an eminent sahabas whose life after accepting Islam was brief but was promised Jannah in some narrations. Bilal as we are know was also staunch figure in Islam. Though once a slave, he became the Mua’zin during Prophet era but left Madina after his demise. Hamza (rta) was also an uncle of Prophet who met his death during Battle of Uhud*
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*Zayd once a slave in the household of Prophet who later married Zaynab, who later became Prophet wife after divorcing Zayd. Zayd name was mentioned in Suratil Ahzab by name pertaining her marriage with Zeynab (rta). Few Eminent Sahabas(female) we couldn’t bring u their stories include the children of Holy Prophet(Zeynab, Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum). Others include Prophet wives Khadijàh bint Khuwaylid, Safiya, Zeynab, Juweiriyah, Maimuna and mother of Ibrahim*. *Asma was married to Jafar , but later married Abubakar when He died. She also married Ali, the younger brother of Jafar after Abubakar demise. ___*PAGE 16*___
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*Asma( a daughter of Abubakar) married Talha but later married Talha’s brother upon  Talha’s death. We shall use the next few days to cover the stories of the 4 imams before we draw the curtain to this comprehensive topic. We shall perhaps repeat these stories on this page in the next 4 years in sha Allah 😳. That’s why we always recommend our telegram channel for you, to help retrieve the old lessons*. May Allah azza wa jalla make us steadfast in faith. May HE accept our ibaadaat and grant us the Good in this World and the Hereafter. May HE guide, forgive and grant us Jannah...AMIN.