With the spirit that we know of 'A'ishah, it was very hard for her to bear this failure, and it created a deep rage and rancor in her. Was it not this same factor that caused her to speak harshly with Mu'awiyah after so many years of friendship and attachment for him and despite all his material considerations and kindness to her, and remind him of his wrong deeds, and bring up the subject of the unjust death of her brother after fifteen years?
Sly and states manlike Mu'awiyah preferred to show calmness and moderation against 'A'ishah's rage and dissatisfactions and remind her of his past friendship and his gifts and his generosity towards her.
Of course 'A'ishah as a strong woman that we have got to know in the pages of this book, would not so easily calm down from her state of boiling rage, and would not quickly forget her rancor and enmity, especially as Mu'awiyah had at that time inflicted another fresh. wound upon her, namely by putting to death another brother of hers in the question of the allegiance to Yazid. Naturally the disagreement between 'A'ishah and Mu'awiyah became more intensified at the sudden death of her own brother, 'Abd ar-Rahman and she was filled with boiling rage.

'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr is poisoned

Marwan is a piece of God's damnation.
'A'ishah

The third factor of the disagreement between 'A'ishah and Mu'awiyah was the question of the mysterious death of her brother, 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr. We have already seen that at the time when Mu'awiyah was preparing the Muslim people to show allegiance to Yazid, Marwan ibn al-Hakam governed Medina. One day during his sermon he spoke of Yazid and of his nomination as caliph to succeed his father. 'Abd ar-Rahman rose and spoke in opposition to Marwan, and Marwan ordered to arrest him.
But 'Abd ar-Rahman fled out of the mosque and went to the