“I also testify it...

“I also testify it,” commented Mu`awiyah who further asked, “Do you know that the Prophet prohibited putting golden things (for men only)?” “Yes, we know,” answered they. He then asked, “Do you know that the Prophet prohibited joining the `Umrah to the Hajj?” “No, we do not,” said they.

He commented, “By Allah, this is indeed with the prohibited matters.”[^10] This is Mu`awiyah’s method in inducement and depending upon the familiar rulings in sticking fabricated ones to them for purpose of deluding the others.

As he comments on this narration, Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah said, “We swear by Almighty Allah that this is a delusion fabricated by Mu`awiyah or might have been fabricated against him since the Holy Prophet had never prohibited the joining of the `Umrah with the Hajj.”[^11] As a matter of fact, Ibn al-Qayyim has been also mistaken.

Like the majority of the Muslims, Ibn al-Qayyim had a favorable idea about Mu`awiyah and though of him as having been deluded, while delusion is impracticable in such a clear-cut ruling that had been practiced by the Holy Prophet and the Muslims before disagreement…