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  Chapters
1. A word from the Persian translator
2. Preface: aim of the survey and discussion
3. The lineage of Mu'awiyah: Abu Sufyan and Hind
4. The Umayyads in pagan times
  5   Abu Sufyan in the battle of Badr
6. Abu Sufyan in the battle of Uhud
7. Hind in the battle of Uhud
8 Abu Sufyan as leader in the battle of al-Khandaq
9. Feeling of weakness and proposal of peace
11. Mecca is captured
  12.   Abu Sufyan and his position in the Islamic community
  13   Abu Sufyan in the time of the first two caliphs
  14   Abu Sufyan in the time of 'Uthman
  15   Mu'awiyah in the time of the Prophet
  16   Mu'awiyah in the time of the caliphs
  17   Mu'awiyah and 'Uthman
  18   Abu Dharr facing Mu'awiyah
  19   A fable in the history of Islam
  20   Quranic Memorizers and Interpreters of Kufah in ash-Sham
  21   Mu'awiyah after 'Uthman
  22   Siffin, the battlefield scene of right over wrong
  23   The trickery of Mu'awiyah
  24   Abu Musa and 'Amr ibn al-'As
  25   ash-Shami plunderes
  26   Jariyah ibn Qudamah, a man of the Alawite front
  27   Two opposing politics
  28   Mu'awiyah in the time of Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba
  29   Motives for peace
  30   Cautious treatment of enemies
  31   Crafty Arabs in the trap laid by Mu'awiyah
  32   Heavy taxes
  33   The Shi'ah in torture and molestation
  34   Governing becomes hereditary and imperial
  35   Allegiance to Yazid in Basra
  36   Allegiance to Yazid in ash-Sham
  37   Allegiance to Yazid in Medina
  38   Allegiance to Yazid demands victims
  39   Ceremonies of allegiance to Yazid
  40   What caused the friendship between 'A'ishah and the Umayyads
41 Gifts of Mu'awiyah
  42   the influence of 'A'ishah in the rule of the Umayyads
  43   'A'ishah and Mu'awiyah in reciprocal contention
  44   Death of Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
  45   'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr is poisoned
  46   'A'ishah is penitent about the battle of al-Jamal
  47   'A'ishah generosity
  48   Her family bigotry
  49   'A'ishah as an eminent orator
  50   'A'ishah as a well -dressed woman
  51   'A'ishah's monopoly of verdicts
  52   Anecdotes in the life of 'A'ishah
  53   TA brief glance at the life of Mu'awiyah
  54   Traditional making
  55   Freed persons and the caliphate
  56   A cover for inferiority complexes
  57   The fate of the noble persons who did not co-operate with Mu'awiyah
  58   Imam 'Ali is cursed on Islamic pulpits
  59   A group of people refuses to curse
  60   The ultimate goal of Mu'awiyah
  61   A tradition from 'A'ishah
  62   Conclusion and purpose
  63   Addendum
       

 

 

THE ROLE OF AISHAH IN THE HISTORY OF ISLAM
In the name of God, the almighty

rancor and hostility towards the Prophet's household, had created a close and firm friendship between 'A'ishah and Umayyads, especially with Mu'awiyah, for which reason they showed a great respect to her and offered her many gifts.


Gifts of Mu'awiyah

Once Mu'awiyah sent 'A'ishah one hundred thousand drachmas.
Historians


When a critical scholar searches reliable historical texts, he finds strange signs of 'A'ishah's attachment to the government of the Umayyads. These two, despite their past differences and their combats in the assassination of 'Uthman, now found it expedient to sit alongside each other and form a single front.
The financial considerations of the Umayyad government towards 'A'ishah are a clear evidence of the said attachment. Again and again many gifts and sums of money were sent for her by Mu'awiyah and other Umayyad rulers. Here we cite some examples of this treatment, which we have collected from reliable historical texts.
Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, well-known writer of Hilyat al-awliya', quoting 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim, says that once Mu' awiyah sent some gifts for 'A'ishah which included money, clothes and precious objects.(243)
He also quotes 'Urwah ibn az-Zubayr, saying that on another occasion Mu'awiyah sent 'A'ishah one hundred thousand drachmas.(244)
Ibn Kathir, the famous historian of the 8th century, quotes 'Ata', saying that Mu'awiyah sent a valuable necklace for 'A'ishah in Mecca, the price of which was about one hundred thousand drachmas, and she accepted it.(245)
The reliable book of Tabaqat al-kubra reports that Munkadir ibn 'Abd Allah visited 'A'ishah and after some preliminary talks, she asked him: "Have you an offspring?" He said: "No!" 'A'ishah said: "If I had ten thousand drachmas, I would give it to you to buy a slave-girl and have an offspring by her." This


 

 

 

 

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