Relationship Between the Rightly Guided Caliphs

Year 2005, Issue: 6, 121 - 133, 01.12.2005

Rıza Savaş

Abstract

The period of the Rightly Guided Caliphate begins with the period
immediately following the death of the Prophet and covers the reigns of
those caliphs – namely, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali- who truly
followed in the Prophet’s footsteps. In this article we attempted to find
out the degree of relationship by consanguinity between these caliphs,
supposing that such research would uncover the reasons and their
importance which may lie behind their seizing of power.
All being belong to the Quraish tribe, the first four caliph’s family
lineage goes back to the same ancestor, namely Ka’b b. Luey. These
people had naturally established new relationships between themselves
and their children.
We, in this article, defend the idea that their relationship had played
no role in their succession to the throne. Being a relative of the Prophet
was considered as important. However, such relationship can not only
be understood in terms of genealogy, but it is a relationship that has
wider meaning.

RÂŞİD HALİFELER ARASINDAKİ AKRABALIK BAĞLARI

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