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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Muawiya Mu'awiya Forced People To Give Bayya To Yazeed Yazeed the 'protector of Afflictions' In his defence of Mu'awiya, Abu Sulaiman comments Ansar.org states:"Perhaps the reason that pushed Mu'awiyah to take allegiance to Yazeed was to push away the disagreement and to be one in this crucial time at which the Ummah lived and where a lot of people claimed the caliphate.

Hence, Mu'awiyah thought that by giving the leadership to Yazeed would be a good thing for the Ummah and it would prevent another affliction of happening And what wonderful affliction was prevented. Yazeed reigned for three years. In the first year Imam Hussain his family and companions were martyred. In the second year Yazeed ordered an attack on Harra that led to the slaughter of the companions and the mass rape of their women folk. In History of al-Fakhri, translated by C.E.J.

Whitting, London, 1947, pp. 113-115 we learn that Yazeed first asked Ubaydullah bin Ziyad to lead an army against Medina, who made excuses, then he asked Muslim bin Uqbah who led the army: "Then Muslim, son of 'Uqbah, for three days gave Madinah to the sack.

He murdered, looted and took prisoners, so that it was said that a man of Madinah thereafter, if he gave his daughter to wed, would not guarantee her virginity, "She may have been raped in the battle of Harrah." (from page 114) Ta'rikh Duwal al-Islam, al-Dhahabi, Hyderabad, page 31 provides list of those Sahaba who were killed in Harra. Yazeed's protection from affliction did not just end there.

Fakhri on page 114-115 states that Yazeed issued an order to go to Mecca, though Muslim died before he reached Mecca and so that another person (who Yazeed had nominated should Muslim die, since he was old led attack: "The son of Zubair, with the men of Meccah, made a sally against him, battle was joined and a Syrian versifier said:- "'Artillery' like a foaming stallion, with which he shoots at the timbers of this mosque." A footnote says 'timbers' refers to the Prophet's pulpit and other relics.

In al-Isabah fi tamyiz al-Sahaba, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani volume 3, page 470 also mentions the pillage of Medina, and stoning of Ka'bah during Yazeed's reign. Nasibi appraisal of 'pious' Yazeed Abu Sulaiman states: Ansar.org states:"It is also a lie that Yazeed was an alcohol drinking person". We will let Muhammad bin Ali bin Abi Talib to answer this claim because Muhammad knew Yazeed the best because he lived with him for a while.