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327 |
Cf., for instance, pp. 387
and 399,
above. |
328 |
The men of the shura were `Uthman, `All, Talhah, az-Zubayr, Sa'd
b. Abi Waqqas, and 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. 'Awf. Of the ten men to whom
Paradise was guaranteed (cf. n. 165
to Ibn Khaldun's Introduction,
above), Sa'id b. Zayd, usually considered to have been one of them, was
also still alive when 'Uthman became caliph. |
329 |
That is, when the appointments of 'Umar
and of 'Uthman were decided. |
330 |
Cf. pp. 422
f., above, and pp. 434
f., below. |
331 |
Cf.
p. 405, above. |
331a |
Ibn
Qutaybah, 'Uyun, I,
9,
ascribes a similar remark to the caliph 'Abd-al-Malik b. Marwin, who
said: "Be fair to me, 0 my subjects. You want me to act like Abu Bakr
and 'Umar, while you do not act like the subjects of Abu Bakr and 'Umar...." |
332 |
Cf. pp. 324 ff, above. |
333 |
Cf., for
instance, Qur'an 22.56 (55). |
334 |
Cf. al-Bukhari,
Sahih,
I,
41;
Handbook, p.
161a. |
335 |
As reported in all the historians.
Cf., for instance, at-Tabari, Annales,
I, 2777; Ibn Hisham, Sirah, p. 1010. |
336 |
The beginning of this sentence is
not found in Bulaq and B, but appears in A, C, and D. |
337 |
Cf. Handbook, p. 1b. |
338 |
Cf.
p. 402, above. |
339 |
Cf. also p. 450, below. |
340 |
Cf. p. 444, below. |
341 |
The last sentence is not found in Bulaq or Paris. |
342 |
This is a
well-known legal maxim. Cf. also J. Schacht,
The Origins of Muslim Jurisprudence, p.
128. |
343 |
Or
Mukhallad (?). Cf. Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, X,
148. |
344 |
Cf. at-Tabari,
Annales, I,
3167. |
345 |
In general,
the Mu'tazilah held to
the theory that both parties were wrong. Cf. H. S. Nyberg in EI, s.v.
"al-Mu'tazila." |
346 |
Cf. p. 437, above. |
347 |
And has
no consequence upon one's welfare in the other world. |
348 |
Cf. at-Tabarl,
Annales, II,
329. The argument is that if al-Husayn had
disapproved of the attitude of these men, he would not have referred to
their opinion
of him as authoritative. |
349 |
The word
"correct" is found in C but deleted there. It appears in D. |
350 |
Cf. n. 98 to Ibn Khaldun's Introduction, above. |
351 |
That is,
Yazid's henchmen, who are to be distinguished from the men around
Muhammad who were with Yazid. |
352 |
Who did not help al-Husayn but did not do the actual fighting, the guilt
for which rests only upon Yazid and his henchmen. |
353 |
Mubammad
b. 'Abdallah, 469-546 [1076/77-1148]. Cf. GAL, I, 412 f.;
Suppl., I, 632 f., 792 f. Cf. also below, n. 1123 to Ch. vi, and
3:303. The statement shocked some later scholars; cf. F. Rosenthal,
A
History of Muslim Historiography, p. 299. It
is contained in the selection from Ibn al-'Arabi's work published under
the title of al-'Awalim min al-gawasim
(Cairo,
1971/1952), p. 292. |
354 |
Cf. p. 440,
above. |
355 |
Cf. p. 423, above. |
356 |
Cf. al-Bukhari,
Sahih,
II, 416;
IV, 124. Cf. also F. Rosenthal, op. cit., p. 256.33,
Cf. G. Surdon and L. Bercher, Recueil
de testes ... ,
pp. 76-85. |
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