We have already set that out in detail earlier, and their stock is Jewish—devoid of any nobility. The venerable imams, the champions of Allah’s religion within this ummah, have issued the same legal verdict.

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In like manner, the caliphs who followed among Banū Umayyah were fourteen, exactly the same number as the Rāfiḍī line (1); yet their reign fell short of a full hundred years. Every one of them was a nasibi—openly hostile to the Prophet’s Household—save the god-fearing Imām ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

They were: Muʿāwiyah, then his son Yazīd, followed by Yazīd’s son Muʿāwiyah the steadfast; Marwān, and after him his son ʿAbd al-Malik, who contested Ibn al-Zubayr until the latter was killed and thereafter ruled the entire realm without dispute; next al-Walīd, that devoted son who built the Great Mosque—no building of its kind can match it (2).

He was succeeded by Sulaymān the generous and ʿUmar; then by Yazīd, Hishām, and the treacherous al-Walīd ibn Yazīd (3). After him came Yazīd ibn al-Walīd, an outstanding ruler who was nonetheless nicknamed “the Deficient,” though he was far from it (4); next Ibrāhīm, a man of sound judgment (5); and finally Marwān al-Himār al-Jaʿdī, the last of them—remember this from me (6).

All praise is due to Allah for bringing the account to completion; we praise Him likewise for His countless favors (7). May blessings—complete in number—be upon the Chosen Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his noble Companions, at every moment and in every age.

These verses were penned by the author himself—eight in all (8)—as a supplement to the record of noble deeds.