- The
Saqifa (Arabic: سَقِيفَة, romanized: Saqīfah) of the Banu Sa'ida clan
refers to the
location of an
event in
early Islam where some of the companions...
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successor at
Ghadir Khum,
there was no
longer any
reason to vote in
Saqifa. The
Saqifa affair excluded Muhammad's family, who were
preparing to bury him...
- Muhammad's
death in 11/632, the
Ansar (natives of Medina)
gathered in the
Saqifa (lit. 'courtyard') of the Sa'ida clan. The
conventional wisdom is that they...
- into
submission by Umar,
those gathered at
Saqifa agreed on Abu Bakr as the new head of the community. The
Saqifa event is said to have
excluded Muhammad's...
- Umar
rushed to the
Saqifa,
accompanied by Abu Ubaida.
These three companions were the only
members of the
Muhajirun in the
Saqifa meeting,
possibly accompanied...
- have been
usurped by a
number of Muhammad's
companions at the
meeting of
Saqifa where they
appointed Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) as
caliph instead. As such, ****...
-
leadership of the
Muslim community as the
first caliph,
being elected at
Saqifa. His
election was
contested by a
number of
rebellious tribal leaders. During...
- (Meccan converts, lit. 'migrants') at the
Saqifa. The case of Ali was
unsuccessfully brought up at the
Saqifa in his absence, and, ultimately,
those present...
- Shi‘a Islam, also
known as Shi‘ite
Islam or Shia, is the
second largest branch of
Islam after **** Islam.
Shias adhere to the
teachings of
Muhammad and...
- the
Islamic community should be
chosen by a
council (in the case of the
Saqifa), and a
second group, the Shia, who
believed that
Muhammed had
named his...
