When caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wanted to change that...
When caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wanted to change that “Sunnah” with the Qur'anic verse saying, “Surely Allah enjoins the effecting of equity and of goodness (to others) and the giving (in charity) to the kindred” (Holy Quran, 16:90) , they plotted against him and killed him for killing their “Sunnah” and taking lightly the statements of his predecessors who had brought him to caliphate. They poisoned him when he was only thirty-eight years old, having ruled no more than two years.
He became the victim of his reform because his cousins, the Umayyads, did not agree to his laying their “Sunnah” to…
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