Twelve revivers of Caliphate

The term Twelve reviver Caliphs or Twelve successors refers to a hadith of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in which he said that after him there would be twelve successors mentioned as "Khalifa" who would guide Islam well according to the Quran and the Sunnah.[1][2] (Similar hadith talk of twelve "men" (Muslim 1821b) or twelve Muslim "rulers" (Sahih al-Bukhari 7222, 7223).) According to the Hadith they all are will be from the Quraysh. Those twelve caliphs are sometimes referred to by scholars as "Rashidun" ("Rightly Guided") or as "Mujaddid".[3]

In bible

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Some scholars point out similar verse from bible one well known verse from Genesis 17:20[4] where it talks about the children of Ishmael:

And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

— Bible, Genesis 17:20

Hadith

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Two sets of very similar versions of the hadith are included in Sahih Hadith collections Sahih al-Bukhari (7222, 7223),

Narrated Jabir bin Samura:
I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, "There will be twelve Muslim rulers (who will rule all the Islamic world)." He then said a sentence which I did not hear. My father said, "All of them (those rulers) will be from Quraish."[5]

and Sahih Muslim (1821a, 1821b, 1821c),

It has been narrated on the authority of Jabir b. Samura who said:
I joined the company of the Prophet (ﷺ) with my father and I heard him say: This Caliphate will not end until there have been twelve Caliphs among them. The narrator said: Then he (the Holy Prophet) said something that I could not follow. I said to my father: What did he say? He said: He has said: All of them will be from the Quraish.[6]

List

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According to the largest school of Islam, Sunni Islam, there are four or five caliphs who are considered Rashiduns or Mujaddids

The Rashidun Caliphs (632–661)

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The famous four Rashidun Caliph are considered as the confirmed caliphs out those 12 Caliphs because of the hadith of prophet Muhammad where he foretold the prophetic caliphate will last for 30 years[7][8][9]

Abu bakr

Umar I

Uthman

Ali

Umar II[10]

Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz

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The sunni branch of islam consider Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz to the first mujaddid and 5th of the rashidun caliph because of his efforts and sacrifice for the revival of caliphate system.[11][12][13] He famously renewed the shura system after his predecessor Suleiman nominated him before death he rejected it and asked the muslim ummah again to ensure his legitimacy by shura.[14][15][16]

References

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  1. ^ "Sahih Muslim 1821b - The Book on Government - كتاب الإمارة - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)". sunnah.com.
  2. ^ "Sahih Muslim 1821a - The Book on Government - كتاب الإمارة - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)". sunnah.com.
  3. ^ "Mujaddid". Archived from the original on 2018-09-04.
  4. ^ Genesis 17:20, Bible (10 December 2024). "Genesis 17:20". Bible gateway.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī. "Sahih al-Bukhari 7222, 7223, Book 93, Hadith 82; USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 9, Book 89, Hadith 329". Sunnah.com. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  6. ^ Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj. "Sahih Muslim 1821a In-book reference : Book 33, Hadith 5 USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 20, Hadith 4477". Sunnah.com. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Sunan Abi Dawud 4646 - Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah) - كتاب السنة - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)". sunnah.com.
  8. ^ "Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2226 - Chapters On Al-Fitan - كتاب الفتن عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)". sunnah.com.
  9. ^ "Mishkat al-Masabih 5395 - Fitan - كتاب الفتن - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)". sunnah.com.
  10. ^ "Mujaddid Ulema". www.livingislam.org.
  11. ^ "Pioneers of Islamic History: Omar ibn Abdul Aziz: The Rightly Guided Caliph". IslamOnline. August 28, 2022.
  12. ^ "Leadership and history making: Lessons from Umar bin Abdul Aziz". Home.
  13. ^ "'Umar Ibn 'Abdul 'Aziz, the Fifth Caliph - Khaalid Abu Saalih". en.islamway.net.
  14. ^ "Umar ibn Abdul Aziz: The Rightly Guided Reformer". April 28, 2023.
  15. ^ "Leadership lessons from the life of ʿUmar bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (RA) – Islamic Self Help".
  16. ^ "Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz: The First Reviver of Islam". www.miftaah.org.