ANECDOTE OF ʾOMAR'S JUSTICE.
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"I am not mocking you," said ʾOmar. And he did not leave her until he had bought her injustice for five-and-twenty dinârs.
Now whilst he was thus occupied, behold! ʾAly the son of Abu-Tâlib,[1] and ʾAbd-Allâh the son of
- ↑ ʾAly, the son of Abu-Tâlib, became in after-years the fourth Khalîfah of the Rashîd dynasty. His father, Abu-Tâlib, was the Prophet's paternal uncle; and he (ʾAly) married Fâtimah-ez-Záhrah, the Prophet's daughter. He was born thirty years after the Prophet, and professed el-Islám two days after the Prophet received his mission, being the first who did so after Khadîjah daughter of Khuilîd, the Prophet's wife. ʾAly was the father of Hásan and Husein, and succeeded ʾOthmân-ibn-ʾAffân in A.H. 35 (A.D. 656). He was murdered by ʾAbd-er-Rahmân, ibn-Mulgâm, el-Murâdy, in A.H. 40, aged 63 years, after a reign of four years and nine months. He was buried at el-Kûfah, and his grave is famous. To this day it is visited by the pious.
a description of the oldest dinâr I have seen. It was struck in A.H. 96 (A.D. 714–15), during the Khalîfate of el-Walîd-ibn-ʾAbd-el-Málik, the sixth of the Benu-ʾOmeyyah Khalîfahs:—
INSCRIPTIONS.
| Obverse. | ((Area) | There is no God but God. He is one. He hath no partner. (Negation of the Trinity.) |
| (Circle) | Muhammad is the Apostle of God, Who hath sent him with the true Guidance and Religion, that he should manifest it above all other religions. | |
| Reverse. | ((Area) | God is one. God is eternal. He neither begets (negation of Christ being the Son of God) nor is begotten. (Negation of Christ being God.) |
| (Circle) | In the name of God. This dinâr was struck (in the) year 96. |
