Abū al-Malīḥ, on the authority of Maymūn ibn Mihrān, said:

“The first man ever to sit upon the pulpit and ask the people’s permission to address them was Muʿāwiyah, and they granted him leave.”

ʿUbādah ibn Nusayy related: “Muʿāwiyah delivered a sermon to us at al-Sinnabra ⦗1⦘ and declared: ‘Three hundred Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ fought at Ṣiffīn at my side; none of them is still alive except me.’ ⦗2⦘”

Its isnād is layyin (weak).

Yūsuf ibn ʿAbdah said: “I heard Ibn Sīrīn say: ‘A chill fever (qirrah) seized Muʿāwiyah, so light quilts were placed over him. Before long they caused him discomfort; yet whenever they were removed he would ask that they be put back and would exclaim: “May Allah disfigure you, O abode! I dwelt in you twenty years as governor and twenty years as caliph, only to end up in the state you see.”’ ”

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said: “Muʿāwiyah was the first to establish a dīwān for the official seal, the first to order the observance of Nawrūz and Mihragān, the first to erect screened chambers (maqāṣīr) in the congregational mosque, the first to execute a Muslim with slow deliberation (ṣabran), the first over whose head guards were posted, the first before whom tethered steeds were paraded, the first in Islam to employ eunuch servants, the first to raise the pulpit to fifteen steps, and he used to say, ‘I am the first of the kings.’ ”

I say: Indeed.

Safīnah has transmitted that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The caliphate after me will last thirty years; then it will become kingship.” ⦗5⦘

Thus the Prophetic Caliphate came to an end after thirty years,