عن معاويةَ، قال: قال رسول الله ﷺ: «مَن يُرِدِ اللهُ به خيرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ في الدِّينِ، وإنَّما أنا قاسمٌ، واللهُ يُعطِي، ولن تزالَ هذه الأُمَّة قائمةً على أمر الله، لا يَضرُّهم مَن خالَفَهم، حتى يأتيَ أمرُ الله».
106 - The status of religious knowledge
Mu‘āwiyah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
1. When God wishes to grant goodness to a person He gives him an insight into the religion.
2. I am only a distributor, but God is the Giver.
3. This community shall continue to adhere to the divine faith, unperturbed by those who oppose them until God’s will is done.
Mu‘āwiyah ibn Abi Sufyān
Mu‘āwiyah ibn Abi Sufyān Sakhr ibn Ḥarb’s mother was Hind bint‘Utbah. He embraced Islam when the Prophet and his companions performed the compensatory‘umrah (Year 7 AH, 629 CE), but he only made it public a year later, when his father converted to Islam at the time of the Prophet’s takeover of Makkah. His sister was Umm Ḥabībah, the Prophet’s wife. He became one of the scribes who wrote down the Qur’anic revelations as dictated by the Prophet. During his reign, ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb appointed him Governor of Syria. He became the caliph after the well-known events of strife within the Muslim community, referred to in Islamic history as ‘the Great Strife’. Al-Ḥasan, the Prophet’s grandson, pledged his allegiance to him as caliph. He died in Year 60 AH, 680 CE.
