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        "id": 2035222,
        "msgid": "four-false-accounts-inserted-into-the-history-of-uthman-ibn-affans-appointment-as-caliph-1791877959",
        "date": "2026-10-13 14:18:00",
        "title": "Four False Accounts Inserted into the History of Uthman ibn Affan\u2019s Appointment as Caliph",
        "author": "Nashih Nashrullah",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Anthropology",
        "summary": "The article argues that fabricated accounts have been introduced into narratives about the shura and Uthman ibn Affan\u2019s appointment as caliph, and later circulated by Orientalists and modern writers without adequate scrutiny. It surveys how medieval historians and authors transmitted accounts from sources including Abu Mikhnaf, al-Waqidi and Ubaidullah ibn Musa.",
        "content": "<p>JAKARTA \u2014 Many fabrications and falsehoods have been inserted into\nIslamic history by those hostile to Islam. Among them are accounts of\nthe shura (consultation) and the appointment of Uthman ibn Affan as\ncaliph.<\/p>\n<p>Orientalists later accepted and spread these reports. As a result,\nmany modern historians and thinkers were influenced by them without\nfirst examining and verifying their isnad (chains of transmission) or\nmatn (content). Ultimately, the reports spread among Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Various inaccurate accounts of the shura and Uthman ibn Affan\u2019s\nappointment as caliph were infiltrated with fabrications and\nfalsehoods.<\/p>\n<p>Some people even wrote books specifically about the event. Abu\nMikhnaf, for example, wrote a book about the shura, as did Ibn Uqdah and\nIbn Babawayh.<\/p>\n<p>Ibn Sa\u2019d, meanwhile, cited nine accounts through al-Waqidi concerning\nthe shura, the bay\u2019ah (oath of allegiance) to Uthman, and the history of\nhis appointment as caliph.<\/p>\n<p>He also transmitted, through Ubaidullah ibn Musa, an account covering\nthe killing of Umar ibn al-Khattab, the restriction of the candidates\nfor caliph in the shura to six people, and Umar\u2019s instructions to Ali\nand Uthman should either of them be chosen as caliph. The account also\nincludes Umar\u2019s instructions to Shuhaib on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Baladhuri transmitted an account of the shura and the bay\u2019ah to\nUthman from Abu Mikhnaf and Hisham al-Kalbi.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the accounts he cited came from Abu Mikhnaf; others were\nreports he presented on his own, while some derived from al-Waqidi and\nUbaidullah ibn Musa.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Tabari also based his account on several reports, including one\nfrom Abu Mikhnaf.<\/p>\n<p>Ibn Abi al-Hadid, meanwhile, cited several episodes in the account of\nthe shura through Ahmad ibn Abdul Aziz al-Jawhari. He also said that he\nhad consulted al-Waqidi\u2019s book, <em>Al-Shura<\/em>.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/four-false-accounts-inserted-into-the-history-of-uthman-ibn-affans-appointment-as-caliph-1791877959",
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