Book of History

Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) remained Caliph for two and a half years, and he passed away in the twelfth year after the Hijrah of the Prophet (ﷺ).

Hazrat Umar Farooq (may Allah be pleased with him) remained Caliph for ten years and six months, and was martyred in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah in the twenty-third year of Hijrah.

Hazrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) remained Caliph for twelve years, and was martyred in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah in the year thirty-five Hijri.

Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) remained Caliph for five years, and was martyred in the year forty Hijri, on the twenty-first of Ramadan, which was a Friday.

Hazrat Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) remained caliph for a little less than twenty years and passed away in the year sixty Hijri.

Yazid bin Muawiyah ruled for three years and six months.

The trial of Hazrat Ibn Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) lasted for nine years.

Marwan bin Hakam ruled for nine or ten months.

Abdul Malik bin Marwan remained caliph for fourteen years.

Walid remained caliph for nine years.

Sulaiman remained the caliph.

Hisham bin Abdul Malik remained caliph for nineteen years and eleven months.

Walid bin Yazid remained caliph for two years.

Yazid bin Walid bin Abdul Malik remained caliph for six months.

Ibrahim bin Walid was caliph for forty nights.

Marwan bin Muhammad bin Marwan remained caliph for five years, then the caliphate was taken from him.