Mu’awiya even killed Ayesha so as to secure the bayya for his son

Mu’awiya even killed Ayesha so as to secure the bayya for his son

We read in Ahl’ul Sunnah’s authoritative work Habeeb as Sayyar Volume page 58:

“In 56 Hijri Mu’awiya arrived in Madina to get people to give bayya to Yazeed, in this regard (the bayya) Ayesha became upset with Mu’awiya and openly expressed her discontent. Mu’awiya then instructed an acquaintance to dig a hole, cover it up and place a chair on the top of it and invite Ayesha to the house for a dinner. No sooner had Ayesha settled down on the chair that she fell through the hole that had been dug. Mu’awiya order the hole to be covered, he then made his way from Madina to Makka”.

Ayesha is the mother of the believers and no momin would ever contemplate killing his mother. This legitimate bayyah that these Nasibi like singing about cannot be deemed to be the correct by anyone that has love for Ayesha in his heart. To secure this bayya, Mu’awiya murdered the son and daughter of Abu Bakr, he killed Imam Hassan (as), Sa’d bin Abi Waqqas and Abdur Rahman bin Khalid. Is there really any ground to deem an ijma that involved the murder of these prominent personalities? If this is still deemed ijma then we would like to counter this by stating that Uthman was also killed by the ijma of the people, do you accept this ijma? Contradictions abound in Sunni Islam, really harsh ones that only those of the attitude ‘I was born into a Sunni family and will die a Sunni’ can accept.

The family of Umar’s opposition towards the bayya of Yazeed

We read in Fatah ul Bari Volume 13 page 80:

عن نافع أن معاوية أراد ابن عمر على أن يبايع ليزيد فأبى وقال لا أبايع لأميرين، فأرسل إليه معاوية بمائة ألف درهم فأخذها، فدس إليه رجلا فقال له ما يمنعك أن تبايع؟ فقال: إن ذاك لذاك – يعني عطاء ذلك المال لأجل وقوع المبايعة – إن ديني عندي إذا لرخيص

Naf’ee narrated that Mu’awiya wanted Ibn Umar to give Bayya to Yazid, but he (Ibn Umar) refused and said: ‘I don’t give bayya to two commanders’. Then Mu’awyia sent 100,000 Dirham to him and he (ibn Umar) received it. Then he (Mu’awiya) sent a man to him (Ibn Umar) and he (the man) said to him (ibn Umar): ‘What is stopping you from giving bayya?’ He (ibn Umar) replied: ‘If this (money) is for that (bayya) if so then my faith is of low price’. When Mu’awyia died Ibn Umar gave bayya to Yazid.

Similarly w read in Siyar Alam al-Nubala, Volume 3 page 225 that has been graded as ‘Sahih’ by Shaykh Shoib Al-Arnaut:

عن أيوب، عن نافع، أن معاوية بعث إلى ابن عمر بمئة ألف، فلما أراد أن يبايع ليزيد، قال: أرى ذاك أراد، إن ديني عندي إذا لرخيص

Nafe’a narrated that Mu’awyia sent 100,000 Dirham to Ibn Umar, when he (Mu’awyia) wanted him (Ibn Umar) to give bayya to Yazid, he (Ibn Umar) said: I see what he wanted by it, if so then my faith is low price. 

The family of Uthman’s opposition towards the bayya of Yazeed and Mu’awiya’s use of bribery to secure compliance

We read in al Imama was al Siyasa Volume 2 page 184:

“At the time that bayya was being given to Yazeed, Uthman’s son Sa’eed approached Mu’awiya, and said ‘Commander of Syria, on what grounds are you making Yazeed your successor, and why are you ignoring me? After highlighting some of his own faults he [Sa'eed] then said ‘If you object to making me the khalifa then at least give something to me’. Mu’awiya said ‘I’ll give you the province of Khurasan. Sa’eed accepted and recited a eulogy ‘Even if may father Uthman were alive he would not give me as much as Mu’awiya just did’.

We read in Tareekh ibn Asakir Volume 6 page 159 Dhikr Saeed bin Uthman:

“The people of Medina such as Saeed bin Uthman disliked Mu’awiya. At the time of the bayya to Yazeed, Sa’eed came to Mu’awiya, and Mu’awiya asked him ‘My brother’s son why did the people say what they say?’ Saeed replied by citing a Madinan poem ‘Verily by Allah, Yazeed is not deserving of khilafat, after Mu’awiya our leader is Sa’eed’. Saeed then said ‘Which part of this poem offended you?’ Sa’eed then began to highlight his own faults saying ‘Sa’eed is mischievous and witty’. Mu’awiya sought to resolve the matter by sending him 100,000 dirhams and appointing him as Governor over Khurusan”.

Abu Sulaiman is chanting that his Imam Yazeed obtained the ijma of the Sahaba. The fact is, in the first instance the leading families of Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman wore opposed to the khilafat of Yazeed, and Mu’awiya secured their consent via political assassination, intimidation and bribery. Only the family of Ali (as) refused to be bought, and around them rallied the last sincere companions, who were killed by Yazeed when they rallied to the side of Husayn (as) at Karbala.

Marwan’s opposition towards the bayya of Yazeed and Mu’awiya’s use of bribery to secure his compliance

We read in al Imama wa al Siyasa Voume 1 page 164, Bayya Yazeed:

“At the time that bayya was given to Yazeed, Marwan became perturbed, he reached Damascus and began to outline his own personal merits such as his age [experience over Yazeed]. Mu’awiya then gave Marwan a 1000 dinar reward.”

That did the trick and shut him up, Marwan was also on board now! We read in Muruj al Dhahab Volume 3 page 38

“When bayya was administered to Yazeed, Marwan became concerned and went to Damascus, and began to cite his own merits citing his age. Mu’awiya calmed him down and said ‘After my successor, the caliphate shall go to you’. Yazeed then appointed Marwan as his successor and sent him back to Medina”

That’s right Yazeed, keep the khilafat in the family.

The opposition of the Arab tribes to the bayya of Yazeed

We read in Talkhees Ibn Asakir Volume 5 page 92 Dhikr Khalida bin al Mu’ammar:

“When the Commander of Syria [Mu'awiya] initiated his desire [to appoint Yazeed] the tribe of Rabia opposed this and the tribe of Abid al Qays joined them (i.e. refused to give bayya). The tribe of Barr bin Wa’l and the tribe of Khalid bin al Mu’ammar also joined in opposition. When the tribe of Rabia refused to give bayya other Arab tribes followed suit. This perplexed Mu’awiya immensely.”

Nasibi Hajjaj bin Yusuf’s admission that he used violence to secure the khilafat for Yazeed

We read in Iqd al Fareed, Volume 2 page 20 that Hajjaj bin Yusuf once told Mu’awiya’s grandson Khalid bin Yazeed about the assassination of witnesses to Yazeed’s playboy lifestyle in Mu’awiya’s palace:

أنا ابن الأشياخ من ثَقِيف، والعقائل من قُريش، والذي ضَرب مائة ألفٍ بسيفه هذا، كُلّهم يَشْهد على أبيك بالكُفْر وشُرْب الخمر، حتى أَقروا أنه خليفة

“I am the son of the noble man of Thaqif and the noble women of Quraish, (I am the one) who killed one hundred thousand people by this sword, all of them deemed your father Kafir and alcoholic, until they recognized him as caliph”

We read similar thing in Tarikh Kamil:

وأنا الذي ضربت بسيفي هذا مائة ألف كلهم يشهد أن أباك كان يشرب الخمر ويضمر الكفر

“I killed one hundred thousand people with this sword, as they deemed your father [Yazeed] to be a kaafir and drunkard”

We read in Semt al-Nujum al-Awali by al-Esami, Volume 2 page 134:

ولقد ضربت بسيفي هذا أكثر من مائة ألف، كلهم يشهد أنك وأباك وجدك من أهل النار

“I killed more than one hundred thousand people with this sword, as they deemed that you, your father and your grand father are in the hell”

Is this how this ijma was achieved – through the slaughtering of opponents and witnesses? Is this the ‘legitimate’ method via which the people happily gave bayya to Yazeed? If the people had been silenced through such methods, it does not in any way mean that they deemed Yazeed’s khilafat to be rightful. When they saw that Yazeed was not even prepared to spare the life of the grandson of Rasulullah (s) they simply adopted taqiyyah through fear of death. Securing allegiance under the threat of death can never constitute ijma. We see a situation in which the whole Ummah was terrified of being killed by Mu’awiya’s de facto secret police unless they gave bayya to Yazeed.