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Unrest erupted in Egypt early in the Islamic era, since the Caliphate of ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan.
Unrest erupted in Egypt early in the Islamic era. It all began during the Caliphate of ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan, May Allaah Be Pleased with him, when some people, whose objective was to plot against Islam and destroy it, started sowing the seeds of hostility and anger against the rightly guided Caliph among the people of the countries, including Egypt.
One of these evil men was a Jewish man from Yemen named ‘Abdullaah ibn Saba’, who settled primarily in Egypt, where he found fertile land for spreading his evil call. He did not settle for fueling people’s hostility against the Caliph, but rather called people to support ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib, May Allaah Be Pleased with him, as the Commander of the Believers. He kept telling people that each Prophet had a trustee and that ‘Ali was the trustee of Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
In Shawwaal of the year 35 AH / 656 AD a group of Egyptian Arabs and crowds of people from Kufah and Basra came to Al-Madeenah. The Egyptians hated ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan, May Allaah Be Pleased with him, mainly due to the lies with which ‘Abdullaah ibn Saba’ had been filling their heads. As a result, they killed the truly guided Caliph ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan, May Allaah Be Pleased with him, giving rise to the eruption of strife and dispute among the Muslims.
The people of Egypt were engaged in these disputes and heinous Fitnah [trial], blindly following the false claims of ‘Abdullaah ibn Saba’. They did not even try to verify those claims, nor did they have confidence in an honorable man, who was one of the best Companions, May Allaah Be Pleased with him. Consequently, they were emboldened to shed his blessed blood, May Allaah Be Pleased with him, based on those false claims. Indeed, such an action was due to their ill thinking.
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