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Mu‘āwiya b. Abī Sufyān (d. 60/680), the first Umayyad caliph, is a figure of considerable dispute and controversy in the Muslim historical tradition.4 He was (at least according to the Sunnī tradition) a Companion of the Prophet and thereby an authoritative conduit of religious knowledge. At the same time, he was a pivotal figure in the first civil war and took up arms against the fourth of the “rightly guided” caliphs, ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/660). After ‘Alī’s death, Mu‘āwiya claimed the caliphate and established the first dynasty of hereditary rulers in the Muslim world. This drew the ire of his contemporaries in Mecca and Medina who treated him with aloofness (at best) and hostility (at worst). The strained relationship between Mu‘āwiya and the Companions is evident in a number of accounts preserved in the Muslim historical and legal sources.
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Haider, N. (2013). Muʿāwiya in the Ḥijāz: The Study of a Tradition. In: Cook, M., Haider, N., Rabb, I., Sayeed, A. (eds) Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought. Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137078957_3
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