Analysing Hadith Allegedly Blessing Yazeed

Analysing Hadith Allegedly Blessing Yazeed

Has Yazeed been guaranteed Paradise?

Here it comes, more from Azam Tariq (may Allah’s curse be upon him):

YAZID WAS THE COMMANDER OF MUSLIM FORCES WHO MARCHED TO CAESAR’S CITY. THIS EXPEDITION WAS SENT DURING THE REIGN OF HAZRAT MUAWIYAH AND IN THIS TASK FORCE WERE INCLUDED ELDERLY AND ILLUSTRIOUS SAHABA LIKE HAZRAT ABU AYYUB ANSARI WHOSE FUNERAL PRAYER WAS LED BY YAZID ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF HAZRAT AYYUB ANSARI HIMSELF. THIS EXPEDITION TOOK PLACE IN 51 H IN WHICH HAZRAT HUSAYN FOUGHT UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF YAZID. THIS WAS THE PIONEERING MUSLIM FORCE WHICH LANDED IN CAESAR’S CITY AND ACCORDING TO A HADITH NARRATED BY ABDULLAH BIN UMAR WHICH HAS BEEN RECORDED BY BUKHARI, RASUL-ALLAH SAID:

“THE ARMY WHICH WILL FIRST EMBARK ON THE EXPEDITION OF CONSTANTINOPLE WILL BLESSED.” (BUKHARI).

YAZID WAS THE COMMANDER OF MUSLIM FORCES ON THIS EXPEDITION WHO WAGED JIHAD IN CAESAR’S CITY AND AS SUCH HE FALLS WITHIN THE PARAMETER OF ABOVE HADITH OF THE PROPHET (SAW). IN VIEW OF THIS IT IS NOT BECOMING ON ANY MUSLIM TO CAST ASPERSIONS ON YAZID AS THE ENTIRE ARMY WHICH TOOK PART IN THIS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN BLESSED BY ALLAH IN THE CONTEXT OF ABOVE HADITH.

Let us analyse the complete tradition from Sahih al Bukhari, Book of Jihad Volume 4, Book 52, and Number 175:

Narrated Khalid bin Madan:

That ‘Umair bin Al-Aswad Al-Anasi told him that he went to ‘Ubada bin As-Samit while he was staying in his house at the seashore of Hims with (his wife) Um Haram. ‘Umair said. Um Haram informed us that she heard the Prophet saying, “Paradise is granted to the first batch of my followers who will undertake a naval expedition.” Um Haram added, I said, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Will I be amongst them?’ He replied, ‘You are amongst them.’ The Prophet then said, ‘the first army amongst’ my followers who will invade Caesar’s City will be forgiven their sins.’ I asked, ‘Will I be one of them, O Allah’s Apostle?’ He replied in the negative.”

These filthy Nasibi have only one hadith that they claim absolves their Imam of any wrongdoing, namely his participation in the army that conquered Caesar’s City. They allege that this allege attendance has assured him of Paradise. We all have to die one day and answer our Creator we have cited scores of Sunni sources that highlight Yazeed’s deeds, his love of incest, homosexuality, drinking, singing, kufr aqeedah and his killing of Imam Husayn (as). Are we really going to just accept this single hadith in Bukhari to neutralise all of Yazeed’s deeds? We appeal to justice and shall cite the following replies:

Reply One – The narrators of this hadith are enemies of Ahl’ul bayt (as)

If we consult Sahih Bukhari Volume 1 page 409 Kitab Jihad Rasheedeya Publishers Delhi 1377 Hijri and the commentary by Shaykh ul Hadith Ahmad Ali Shahranpuri, we read:

“The tradition relating to Caesar’s City was narrated by Thawr bint Yazeed he was an enemy of Commander of the Faithful Ali”.

If this doesn’t convince these Nawasib then we shall cite the following glittering obituary of the man recorded by Imam Ibn Saad:

“He is Thiqa in Hadeeth. It is said that he was a rejecter of Taqdeer. He died in 152 H in Bait al Muqaddas during the era of Abu Jaffar over the age of 60. The grandfather of Thawr was present in Siffeen and participated along side Muawiyah and was killed in the same war. Therefore whenever the name of Ali was taken before Thawr he used to say: “I do not love the man who killed my grandfather۔” 

Tabaqat Ibn Saad, Vol 7 under the topic: Thawr bin Yazid al Kalayee

Moreover, when we read the biography of another narrator of the tradition namely Khalid bin Madan, we learn that he used to narrate from Imam of Nawasib while second category Nawasib used to narrate from him, this shall suffice to prove his firm association with Nasibism. We read in Tahdeeb al Tahdeeb, Volume 3 page 102:

”Khalid bin M’adan bin Abi Kuraib al-Kalaaei Abu Abdullah al-Shaami al-Hemsi, he narrated from Thawban, Ibn Amro, Ibn Umar, Utbah bin Abdulsalami & Mu’awyia bin Abi Sufyan…Narrated from him by Buhair bin Saeed, Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin al-Harith al-Taimi, Thawr bin Yazeed and Hariz bin Uthman…”

As we can see that one of his teachers was Imam of the Nasibi cult namely Muawiyah and notorious Nawasib such as Thawr bin Yazeed and Hariz bin Uthman used to narrate from him, this shall suffice to evidence the ideology that Khalid adhered to. What reliance can we have on a hadith narrated by a scholar whose source of knowledge came from three KingPins of the Nasibi cult? These so called defenders of Ahl’ul Sunnah are trying to get us to accept a hadith narrated by Nawasib to absolve their Imam of all wrongdoings!

Reply Two – The only narrator of this hadith is a woman

This is a crucial point. Why would Rasulullah (s) choose to locate non-mahram woman (namely Um Haram) to convey this hadith to? Is this the type of hadith that he (s) would not wish to convey to a wider audience, particularly to men participating in Jihad? Is this not a hadith that would boost morale / encourage soldiers to fight? Why keep it top secret, to the point that only person who knows of the rewards for participating in this expedition is a woman, who would clearly be unable to communicate this to an audience in a manner that ‘esteemed’ figures such as Abu Hurraira could do.

Additionally why convey this to a woman, who was his (s) non-mahram that meant that she would have had to observe strict purdah (veil) in his presence? After all Rasulullah (s) had nine wives, could he not have conveyed this hadith to any of them? Why convey this to a woman that was not his (s) wife, relative or sister in law? And why did her husband not take this hadith and declare it to the masses in the battlefield? Surely this would have instilled true fighting spirit amongst masses, if they knew that they were to attain Paradise. Rather than do this, why did Um Haram choose to only convey this to her student ‘Umair bin Al-Aswad Al-Anasi?

Worthy of note, when we read this hadith in sources other than Sahih Bukhari wherein Um Haram has narrated the tradition to her nephew Uns bin Malik there is no mention of maghfoor [Paradise], yet when she narrates it to a non mahram Umair she remembers that the participants are blessed with Heaven! Why did she forget to convey the words ‘Paradise’ to her nephew but then chose to entertain a non-mahram in her home and convey the hadith with this word to him?