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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

Anecdotes in the life of 'A'ishah

with 'A'ishah, namely that, one day in 'A'ishah's presence the talk led to the death of Dhu ath-Thadiyah at the hand of Imam 'Ali. The narrator says: 'A'ishah said to me: "If you visit Kufah bring me a letter of testimony from the people who have witnessed this scene." I went to Kufah and I chose ten people from each group and collected their testimony in a letter and took it to Medina for 'A'ishah. When she saw it, she said: "May God damn 'Amr ibn al-'As! He claimed that I have killed Dhu ath-Thadjyah in Egypt."(825)
After narrating this story, Ibn Kathir adds: Then 'A'ishah bent her head and wept bitterly. After she stopped crying and calmed down, she said: "May God bless 'Ali! He was always with God. What occurred between me and him, was what often occurs between women and their husbands' family."(326)
But as to why 'Amr ibn al-'As had made such a false claim and intended to attribute the death of Dhu ath-Thadiyah to himself, a reference to the narrations of the Prophet clarifies the matter: Writers of tradition and historians have quoted narrations from the Prophet in reproach of Dhu ath-Thadiyah and in praise of his killer. In this way 'Amr ibn al-'As intended to show the conformity of his own praise with that of the Prophet.
Here the survey of 'A'ishah's life comes to an end, and we return to the life of Mu'awiyah in order to discover the motives for and factors of the fabrication of traditions and narrations of that period, and find out the great role of 'A'ishah in this process. For, all our discussions and efforts are intended to recognize the traditions, which are falsely attributed to the Prophet in order to invert Islam. Therefore, without such an analysis those lies cannot be distinguished and criticized.


 

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