Lives Of The Sahaba 35 - Ali Ibn Abu Talib - PT 06

Yasir Qadhi

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🗓️ 11 September 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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As we delve into the talk, Shaykh YAsir Qadhi makes us acquainted with the circumstances leading to this battle, the incidents that transpire and what was the aftermath of this battle. The Battle of Siffin took place between Ali RA, the fourth of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and Muawiyah bin Abu Sufyan RA, the governor of Damascus, who opposed the caliphate of Ali RA. The Battle took place in Siffin- east of ar-Raqqa in the basin of Euphrates. The warring parties camped themselves at Siffin for more than 100 days alternating between negotiations due to lack of interest in fighting.Then due to failure of compliance between the armies, a war was waged for three days between the Iraqis under Ashtar's command and the Qurrā', in Ali's RA army.Ali RA boasted of an army of 80,000 men, including 70 Companions who participated in the Battle of Badr, 70 Companions who took oath at Hudaibiya, and 400 prominent Ansars and Muhajirin while Muawiyah had a fleet of 120,000 Syrians. This battle finally culminated in the legendary appearance of Muʿāwiyah’s troops with copies of the Qurān on their weapons as an indication to let God’s word decide the conflict. ʿAlī agreed to bring the matter to arbitration on the basis of the Qurʾān and delegated Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī as his representative, while Muʿāwiyah sent ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ. Please do watch the video to find out how the battle ended and what was the greatness in this arbitration.

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0:00.0	This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. You're going to be a
0:23.7	mr. Rahm Rahim al-Lhami.
0:27.4	What's all to a sama and say
0:29.9	that Muhammad in Wala Ali he was Sahib
0:31.9	ajma in a bag. So today, in sha al-Alahah he was Sahib Ajmāin' Amabad.
0:33.6	So today, in sha Allah t'ala, as I promised you,
0:35.7	we're going to continue talking about the problematic issues
0:39.4	that took place in the time of Ali Radi Allahan and today we're going to talk about really there's no question
0:46.7	about it the single most difficult and awkward and painful incident in the entire first generation of our tradition.
0:57.0	And as I have said many times before, but just in case somebody's only listening to this one lecture,
1:02.0	always have to make this disclaimer.
1:04.2	We are intentionally not going to go into a lot of detail and I explained why in my previous lectures.
1:09.4	As Allah says in the Quran,
1:10.5	Kilkahumbatun, Kagankahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkahunkah in the Quran, Umm Kuzabot. That is a generation that has gone by in the past.
1:16.7	This generation that is gone.
1:18.2	Tilkahumatun Khatkahat.
1:21.1	They have to answer for what they did.
1:23.2	What a kumakasabdom, you have to answer for what you do.
1:27.2	And I also mention again that we definitely have a premise. Some would call it a bias, and that's fine. We have a premise some would call it a bias and that's fine we have a premise and that is that we believe
1:37.2	Theologically that to the Sahaba are a respected and righteous people and that none of them would intentionally do something
1:45.0	against the interests of the Uma.
1:47.4	And we also believe that the Sahaba are good human beings, but this doesn't mean that
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