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During the reign of Yazid, due to internal conflicts, the expansion of [[Muslim]] territories stopped. Yazid put aside confrontational policies with European Christians; he even retreated from some of the lands that had been conquered at the time of [[Mu'awiya]]. He summoned his soldiers from [[Cyprus]] in return for money. He commanded Yazid b. Janada to destroy the Muslim fortress in Arwad Island and come back to [[Syria]], and summoned his forces from Rhodes. However, in [[61]]/680-1, he sent Malik b. 'Abd Allah al-Khath'ami to war with Romans; a war which was later called the Battle of Syria. In the East, Sogdia and [[Bukhara]] were conquered. In Africa, some conquests took place by 'Uqba b. Nafi'. | During the reign of Yazid, due to internal conflicts, the expansion of [[Muslim]] territories stopped. Yazid put aside confrontational policies with European Christians; he even retreated from some of the lands that had been conquered at the time of [[Mu'awiya]]. He summoned his soldiers from [[Cyprus]] in return for money. He commanded Yazid b. Janada to destroy the Muslim fortress in Arwad Island and come back to [[Syria]], and summoned his forces from Rhodes. However, in [[61]]/680-1, he sent Malik b. 'Abd Allah al-Khath'ami to war with Romans; a war which was later called the Battle of Syria. In the East, Sogdia and [[Bukhara]] were conquered. In Africa, some conquests took place by 'Uqba b. Nafi'. | ||
== | ==Muslims' Views about Yazid== | ||
=== | ===Shi'a View=== | ||
The | 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 (s)]] 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. | ||
===Sunni Views=== | ===Sunni Views=== | ||