It is Forbidden to Narrate Ahadits from Yazid ibn Mu’awiyah
بِسۡمِ
ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Imam Sibth ibn al-Jawzy Shams ad-Din Yusuf ibn Qizughli’s (r.a.) grandfather, Imam Abu al-Faraj ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn ‘Ali ibn al-Jawzy (r.a.) stated, in his ar-Radd ‘ala al-Muta’aswib al-‘Anid al-Mani’ min Dzamm Yazid, “An individual asked me about my views on Yazid ibn Mu’awiyah. I replied that he need not concern himself with that. He then asked if it is permissible to curse him. I stated that the pious scholars of the past, including Ahmad ibn Hanbal, permitted this, with the latter making statements that far exceeded that of mere cursing.”
Imam Abu al-Faraj ibn
al-Jawzy (r.a.) wrote, “I asked Ahmad ibn Hanbal about Yazid ibn Mu’awiyah,
and he replied that he was the one who performed such infamous deeds. I asked what it was that he had done. ibn Hanbal said that he had plundered the
city of Madina and massacred its inhabitants.
I asked if it was permissible to narrate hadits from him. ibn Hanbal
responded that it was impermissible to do so and added that not a single good
deed should be narrated about Yazid and that no one should ever write down a hadits attributed to Yazid.”
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