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Khulafā’-Ranking Order

S: Spectacular

A: Accomplished

B: Better

C: Competent

D: Derelict

E: Embarrassing

F: Failure

Umayyī-Period
(Khulafā’ from Banī-Umayyah: Familial-Clan of Qabīlah-Quraysh)

S-Tier:

(1) Mu`āwiyah ibn-Sakhr/Mu`āwiyah I(*)

(5)`Abd-ul-Malik ibn-Marwān

A-Tier:

(4) Marwān ibn-ul-Hakam ibn Abil-`Ās/Marwān I(*)

(6) al-Walīd ibn `Abd-il-Malik/al-Walīd I

B-Tier:

(7)`Umar ibn `Abd-il`Azīz/`Umar II(?)

C-Tier:

(9) Hishām ibn `Abd-il-Malik

D-Tier:

(2) Yazīd ibn-`Mu`āwiyah/Yazīd I

E-Tier:

(3) Mu`āwiyah ibn-Yazīd/Mu`āwiyah II

(6) Sulāymān ibn `Abd-il-Malik

F-Tier:

(8) Yazīd ibn `Abd-il-Malik/Yazīd II

(10) al-Walīd ibn `Abd-il-Malik/al-Walīd II(×)

(11) Yazīd ibn-ul-Walīd/Yazīd III

(12) Ibrāhīm ibn-ul-Walīd(×)

(13) Marwān ibn-Muhammad/Marwān II(×)

Important Historical-Highlights of the Umayyī-Period:

Some Brief Islāmic-History (al-`Aqā’id/Theologies during the Era of al-Khilāfah Islāmic-Governance)

al-Husayn & the Massacre of Karbalā’

Tale of 2-Tyrants: al-Hajjaj ibn-Yusuf and Bashar Al Assad

Islāmophobia via the Ugliness of Muslim-Politics

https://www.worldhistory.org/Umayyad_Dynasty/

(*)Khulafā’ whom were Ashāb/Companions (May Allah be pleased with them) of Muhammad (Peace be upon them)

(×)Khulafā’ whom were Packed-Up (betrayed, overthrown, assassinated, etc.)

(?)Khulafā’ whom died under Suspicious/Contested-Circumstances

Gareth Bryant