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DEFENCE AGAINST DISASTER
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DEFENCE AGAINST
DISASTER
IN ACCURATELY DETERMINING
THE POSITIONS OF THE
COMPANIONS
AFTER THE DEATH OF THE
PROPHET
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Copyright © Aisha Bewley
2nd edition 2020 CE/1441 AH
Defence Against Disaster
in Accurately Determining the Positions of the Companions after the Death of
the Prophet
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Translated by: Aisha Bewley
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ISBN-13: 978-1-908892-21-8 (casebound)
ISBN-13: 978-1-908892-22-5 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-908892-23-2 (ebook)
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Contents
Foreword vii
Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-‘Arabi xv
His early life xv
His journey from Seville xvi
His ship sinks xvii
Passing through Egypt xix
His arrival in Jerusalem
and eastern Jordan xx
His visit to Damascus xxi
His arrival in Baghdad and devoting himself to
the quest of knowledge xxii
Meeting Abu Hamid al-Ghazali xxv
Hajj and return to Baghdad xxvii
His return by way of Damascus, Palestine and
Alexandria xxvii
His arrival in Seville xxviii
Defence Against Disaster 1
The Back-Breaking Disaster 3
Defence 11
Defamation
Defence 39
Disaster 151
The Battle of the Camel 151
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Defence 155
Disaster 170
The Battle of Siffin 170
Defence 172
Disaster 183
The Arbitration 183
Defence 188
Disaster 194
Claims made about ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib 194
Defence 199
Defamation of al-Hasan and Mu‘awiya, al-Husayn
and Yazid 214
Defence 215
NOTE 270
On Ziyad 270
NOTE 270
Disasters and Defamations 270
Summary 270
Defence 270
References 273
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Foreword
In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the
Most Merciful
Praise belongs to Allah who has blessed
humanity with the message of Islam and
may Allah bless the highest man, the most
perfect teacher, Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah,
whom He chose from His creation. He elevated
the station of those who undertook to
implement His message into actuality and those
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who were in the company of the Prophet and
were excellent caliphs for his Community.
Those who continued their work after them will
cling to their sunna and pursue their goals until
the Day of Rising.
The Muslim world, to which we are proud to
be affiliated and for whose happiness we live,
was mostly conquered in the first Islamic state
which came after the Rightly-Guided Caliphs.
Most of these people followed the guidance of
Islam through the Umayyad caliphs, governors
and generals, thus completing what was begun
by Abu Bakr and ‘Umar, the first two caliphs
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and Companions of the Messenger of Allah .
May Allah be pleased with them and give them
the best repayment from us, Islam and all its
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people.
The spread of Islam and various nations
embracing it is a point of pride in history and
something about which subsequent generations
have boasted until the present. This fills the
hearts of the Muslims with joy and they pray to
Allah to bless those who were the impetus
behind this great blessing. Some people,
however, were grieved by it and their hearts
were filled with malice towards those who
worked for it and they make it their habit to
blame them for every shortcoming.
We might excuse those who have not tasted
the sweetness of Islam since there is a great
divide between them and the people, their noble
goals and the course of life which they followed.
Thus they glance at Islamic history and form a
picture in their minds which is not a true one.
However, I do admit, and there is no point in
denying it, that among those who call
themselves Muslims are some who even hate the
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first caliph after the Messenger of Allah and
call all his good deeds evil deeds. A man who
saw the justice of ‘Umar with his own eyes and
saw his asceticism with regards to the goods of
this world and his fairness to all people could
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not overcome the malice he bore for Islam
which moved him to attack ‘Umar with a knife
even though he had done him no injury. The
people who have attacked ‘Umar with a knife
include those who write books right up until
today which tarnish the good actions of this
paragon of justice, humanity and good. In the
time of ‘Uthman some of them were aggrieved
by the goodness of that caliph whose heart was
formed with the mercy of Allah. They
fabricated and attributed wrong actions to him
and continued to repeat them in their hearts
until they believed them and became experts in
disseminating these lies. Then they made his
blood, which was sacrosanct, lawful in a sacred
month in the vicinity of the father of his two
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wives: Muhammad .
Humanity still witnesses miracles from the
men of Islam in their spreading Islam, bringing
nations into Islam and expanding its horizons so
that the words of the adhan are heard from the
mountains of China and the lands of India to
the plains of the Mediterranean in the west and
the valleys and mountains of Europe. Even the
enemies of Islam can do no more than call it a
miracle. All of that took place in the time of the
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