The Arab Caliphates: The First 600 Years of Islamic History | Casual Historian

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[rationalremedies]

This content is music to my ears. I saw your video about the history channel and you’re right. It is entertainment, not history. 90% of documentaries of YouTube are also garbage. It is so nice to actually learn about the things I’m interested in as opposed to having smoke blown up my @55.

[ahmedabdi]

A lot of errors and misrepresentations here. Let me mention some. First off, the first Muslims who fled to Abbyssinia, modern day Ethiopia via Saila, North West Somalia, were led by Ja’far Abu Dalib and the reason being persecution by Quraish and it was advised by the Prophet himself starting that there’s (in Ethiopia) a just king who would offer you an asylum. Plus, the Quraish, upon learning that they escaped towards Ethiopia, dispatched a group of men contesting their legitimate asylum seeking. Upon arrival, both sides presented their cases in front of the King Najashi who granted the Prophet’s apostles an asylum after they recited a chapter of the Qur’an dealing how Mary conceived Jesus Christ and his miraculous birth at which point the King himself being Christian and knowledgeable of his faith, wept due to emotion. Secondly, there’s no enmity between Othman bin Affan and the Prophet, and after embracing the faith not converting, Othman’s daughter, Hafsa was later married by the Prophet thus becoming in-laws. Third, Abu Bakar’s succession of the Prophet was based on a hint given by the Prophet himself after he nodded to him to lead the last prayer at the mosque attended by the Prophet which was interpreted as a signal to the apostles to elect Abu Bakar. Lastly, I don’t have space here, but I conclude my comment by saying that the narrator has omitted the theological part of the history of early Islam. Another thing I have to mention here is that, it was Mu’awiya Bin Abu Sufyan who hailed from Osman’s sub-clan who established the dynasty (ummuwiyah) in Dimuscus… I wish I had the time to correct you. But all in all, it seems this man has derived this from non-Islamic sources! Having said that there’s a lot of correct information in here as well!!!!

[TheCinamanic]

6:50 Love the contextualisation with the Himyar and Aksum rivalry as a proxy war of the Roman and Persian as a way of controling trade routes.

[Munthasir]

Uthman was one of the closest friend of prophet Mohammad. Multiple of his daughters were married to him and 20:15 as far as I remember the women and childrens were spared and not only that it was seen as one of the lesson from prophet to be kind towards people who aren’t involved in war.

Overall your content is good but I suggest reading multiple sources before making a claim. Anyone who has any prior knowledge or context to Islamic history can easily tell some of the claims are from side x and or y that was made years after the events for different political reasons.

[umarabdaziz]

23:22 Muhammad DID NOT give his clan the Bani Hashem the control of Kaaba. In fact after the conquest of Mecca he maintained it under its previous caretaker, the Bani Shaiba. A tradition which still continue until today.

[Kyle-Q]

They went to ethopia because the african king there was known to be so kind, and accepting of others and strange ideas.

We arabs called him Al-Najashi, the king who never shadows his people ( referring to his kind demeanor ). They stayed there to regroup from conflict basically.

The king is named najashi, while the region was called “habasha”.

[harisabbasi]

Just watched a quarter of this video and while it is very good there are a few mistakes.

1) Muslims did not migrate to abysinnia because of a inter Muslim dispute. They left because there was a genuine fear that the small community would be eliminated because it was only located in Makkah. A few Muslim families moved to abysinnia so that Islam would be preserved.

2) They were lead by Uthman IBN affan ( not IBN mazun) who was from the Ummayad clan but he was also the son in law of the Prophet. The central piece of Islam is believing in the oneness of God and believing Muhammad and other prophets to be messengers and prophets of God. So if you dispute leadership with the Prophet of your time, you are essentially an apostate.

3) after the third battle, the Jews of Banu qurayza were judged by a former ally (Saad IBN muadh) according to the old testament. The punishment for treason in the old testament and Talmudic law was execution for the men and enslavement for women and children.

The previous two tribes were expelled in their entirety from the city. Most of them settled in the oasis of khaybar while a few moved to Syria. From khaybar, they actively participated in the wars against Muslims on the makkan side. They induced Banu qurayza to commit treason.


5) in the old testament, there has never been a prophet who has claimed to be the Final Prophet. So no, you haven't heard that before 😊

[rashidrahman]

Serious persecution against Muslim's, that's the reason, The Noble prophet told his companions that abbysinion King was righteous, that's why they chose his Kingdom.

[crystalmyers]

This was an awesome video very entertaining and informative. I learnt alot

[Abadox]

Brilliant work. This is an in-depth view of the birth of Islam. My only comment is on the segment where early Muslims emigrated to Ethiopia. It wasn’t by tribal rivalry, but more due to prophet Mohammad’s early experience in trade where he heard of the then king of Ethiopia and hoped to open a branch of Islam there under the protection of said king so the trip (one of two tries to establish Islam in Ethiopia) was ordered by him as a way to ease pressure off his followers and a to divert the effort of Quraich.

[lokitus]

I am not so sure about the lack of continuity between the Sassanid and Parthia. empires. It is true that the ruling house was the House of Sassan, but the Parthian aristocratic houses continued to play a prominent role in governing and defending the empire.

[maracohen]

Outstanding Video, a must watch. One of the perspectives this vid brought out was how much impact control of the “Perfume” and the other Trade Roads had on the initial Islamic Wars. I do know that the initial Arab Muslim-Jewish Conflict was from a Muslim perspective, religious, from a Jewish perspective, economic. I don’t think many folks comprehend this.

[m_meedo]

Although there was mistakes about some of events and some personal opinions, yet the amount of time and work spent to make this happen is appreciated.

Greeting from Saudi Arabia 👏🏻

[stiras]

Just found your channel. This is really good! I will definitely share with others.

[ibnebadr]

14:00 uthman didn’t left bcoz of “tensions with prophet Muhammad ﷺ “ but bcoz of makkan pagans persecution on muslims.

[aeon]

I cant imagine how much homework went throughout the making of this video, thank you.

[Quantum-]

14:00: your conjecture that there was a ‘rivalry’ of sorts between Muhammad and Uthman rooted in tribalism is totally false. 1 of Prophet Muhammad’s daughters was married to Uthman and when she passed away, another daughter married Uthman. Usually it is the minority (10-15%)of Shias that hold unsavory views of Uthman. Just stating the facts - for the vast majority 85-90% of Muslims Uthman was a very noble companion of the Prophet and the 3rd Caliph after the Prophet Muhammad.

[Abduladilosman]

Couple of Yathreb men spoke to Mohammed and liked his massage, became muslim, and agreed to support him. They did not just wanted him to resolve disputes.

[TazKidNoah]

I can't blame the guy if there are any mistakes.
Most of Western academia doesn't have objective research on islam. it's only selective parts of islamic literature fully translated and discussed. Hopefully, in the future, the recent research by muslims and nonmuslims who work with the traditional islamic institutions will give more light into islamic history. For the time being, we're stuck with limited information that the public knows, which isn't much. However I think it's good for us to criticize and it's necessary for channels like these to reach out to religious muslim channels that have connections to a islamic scholarships and find more information instead of relying on the internet-western academics which is very limited about islam.

[Kyle-Q]

Correction at 47:40. Al saffat absolutely DOES NOT mean BLOOD shedder. It means pure, piety, or rock.

As in pure and strong!! How did you confuse it with BLOOD SHEDDER! I smell biased because this word I actually used alot throughout my life, mainly to mean pure and generous.

BLOOD SHEDDERS! As if Christians didn’t do EXACTLY the same things everyone else did.