Yazid ibn Mu’awiyah Deserved to be Cursed
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Sibth ibn al-Jawzy Shams ad-Din Yusuf ibn Qizughli ( r.a. ) was the grandson, through his mother’s side, of the great twelfth-century Hanbali theologian and jurist, Imam Abu al-Faraj ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn ‘Ali ibn al-Jawzy ( r.a. ). He was raised in Baghdad during his earlier years, where he studied with his grandfather and other senior scholars. He moved to Damascus around 1202 CE, where he joined the service of the Ayyubid Sultans of Syria. It was around this time that he abandoned the Hanbali school in favour of Hanafism. One of the many fields, in which he excelled in, was history. His monumental historical work, Mir’at az-Zaman fi Ta’rij al-‘Ayan , much like his grandfather’s al-Muntazhzham fi Tarikh al-Umam wa al-Muluk , is a wonderful work of history and contains a wealth of information. One of the most interesting facts about Imam Sibth ibn al-Jawzy Shams ad-Din Yusuf ibn Qizughli ( r.a. ) are ...