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عُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ العَزِيز
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
The Umayyad caliph whose short reign is remembered as a return to the way of the Rashidun.
Also written · Umar bin Abdul Aziz · Omar ibn Abdul Aziz · Umar II · Omar bin Abdulaziz · Umar ibn Abdulaziz · Fifth rightly guided caliph · Omer bin Abdulaziz · Umar the Second · Umar bin Abdil Aziz
The meaning
What Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz means in Islam
He ruled about two and a half years from the ninety ninth year of the Hijrah. He returned property his family had taken, stopped the cursing of Ali from the pulpits, lightened taxes on new Muslims, and lived so plainly that his own household noticed the change first. He is also the caliph who ordered hadith to be gathered and written down systematically, which is why so much survives. Many scholars call him the fifth of the rightly guided caliphs.
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- Banu UmayyahThe first dynasty of caliphs, ruling from Damascus for about ninety years after the Rashidun.بَنُو أُمَيَّة
- Khulafa RashidunThe four caliphs after the Prophet: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali.الخُلَفَاءُ الرَّاشِدُون
- KhilafahSuccession to the Prophet in governing the community, not in prophethood, which ended with him.الخِلَافَة
- HadithA report of what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, or quietly approved, passed down through named narrators.الحَدِيث
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