Yazid b. Mu'awiya: Difference between revisions

==Shi’a View==

The event of Karbala during the rule of Yazid made him one of the most hated individuals in the view of Shi’a. Shi’a considered Yazid deserved to be cursed and regarded denouncing him and other enemies of the Ahl al-Bayt (a) among the essential beliefs of their school of thought. In Shi’a hadith sources, there are hadiths from the Prophet (a) and the Ahl al-Bayt (a) in which Yazid and the murderers of Imam al-Husayn (a) are cursed. In Ziyarat ‘Ashura, there is a statement which curses all Umayyad caliphs. Moreover, in the famous version of Ziyarat ‘Ashura, the phrase, “O God, curse Yazid, the fifth [of them] and curse ‘Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad…” explicitly curses Yazid.

Some Sunnis including Ahmad b. Hanbal, Dhahabi, Ibn ‘Imad Hanbali, Ibn Jawzi and Ibn Khaldun believe in cursing Yazid. Ibn Khaldun claims that all Muslims agree on dissipation of Yazid. In al-Radd ‘ala al-muta’assib al-‘anid al-mani’ min dhamm Yazid, Ibn Jawzi, the Sunni scholar, has discussed the reasons for cursing Yazid and says that in addition to breaking the sanctity of the sanctuary of the Prophet (a) (Medina), Yazid killed Imam al-Husayn (a) against the order of the Prophet (a) for [loving] him, and even afterwards, disrespected his head and also his family.

Some other Sunnis including Ghazzali do not consider cursing any Muslim, including Yazid, permissible. Some others say that the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn (a) was made by the order of Ibn Ziyad and because of the relationship Yazid had with Imam al-Husayn (a) and they were both from Quraysh, Yazid was not happy with fighting and killing him. Taftazani too says that Yazid deserved to be cursed, but in order to avoid extension of cursing to other companions of the Prophet (a), he should not be cursed.