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Explain the events of Ali’s election as a caliph

      

Explain the events of Ali’s election as a caliph

  

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Francis
- After the assassination of Uthuman, there was chaos and violence all over Medina
- The Muslims at that time had no leader
- Also the rebels who killed Uthuman were divided up into three groups
- These included the Egyptians, Basrites and the Kuffans
- This made it difficult to choose a leader for the rebels lacked one leader/ general leader.
- They approached Ali, Zubair, Talha but all of them feared to take up the hot seat.
- The rebels then told the Muslims to come up with a leader soon or else they were take action.
- This forced the Muslims to organize an election.
- They converged in the prophet’s mosque to elect a leader
- Most of the people were chanting pro-Ali slogans in support Ali
- It is at this moment that the Egyptian rebel leader held Ali’s arm and accompanied this with good words in favour of Ali.
- Most of the Muslims decided to go with Ali as their leader and he was declared a caliph.
- Some prominent people like Saad bin Wakasi did not pledge allegiance to Ali but promised never to harm him.
- Most of the Umayads never welcomed the election because they thought finding the murderers of Uthuman was more important at that time.
- Ali ruled for four years i.e. 656 – 660 AD
francis1897 answered the question on March 2, 2023 at 08:43


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