The second "rightly guided" caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab was born to the Quraysh Adi clan in Mecca in 581. Umar came from a middle-class background yet became literate and a champion wrestler. Umar wanted to kill prophet Muhammad (SAW) when he first preached Islam because he thought it was heretical against with the Quraysh and his ancestors. On h…
Read moreThe Fourth Rightly Guided Caliph On January 26, 661 (21st Ramadan), Ali was martyred at the Great Mosque of Kufa in Kufa, Iraq, by Ibn Muljam, an Egyptian Kharijite. Ibn Muljam was a paternal Himyar, but relationship between maternal kinship, he was counted among some of the Murad and closely associated with the Banii Jabala of Kindah. He'd come to …
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