Chapter One
Responding to Those Ahadith Which Have Been Quoted in Criticism of Muawiyah
The Unreliable and Fabricated Narrations That Have Been Quoted in Criticism of Muawiyah
The First Narration: If you see Muawiyah on my pulpit, kill him!
The Second Narration: May Allah curse the rider, and the leader, and the driver.
The Third Narration: There shall enter upon you, from this mountain pass, a man who will die upon other than my religion.
The Fourth Narration: The first to change my Sunnah is a man from Banu Umayyah.
The Fifth Narration: I have been commanded to kill those who are disloyal, those who are unjust, and those who defect.
The Sixth Narration: Indeed the killer of `Ammar and his marauder are in the fire.
The Ahadith Which are Authentic But Do Not Refer to Muawiyah:
The First Narration: The destruction of my ummah will be at the hands of youngsters from Quraysh.
The Second Narration: Hadith of Ibn `Abbas, “I was playing with children when Allah’s Messenger `salla Llahu `alayhi wa sallam happened to pass by (us)…”
The Third Narration: The Khilafah will last thirty years, and then it will become a cruel monarchy.
The Fourth Narration: Wayh `Ammar, the rebellious party will kill him, he is calling them to Paradise and they are calling him to the Fire.
The Fifth Narration: There will take charge of your affairs after me men who will introduce to you that which you disapprove…
The Sixth Narration: It is the covenant of the unlettered Prophet with me, that none shall love me except a believer and none shall hate me except a hypocrite.