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The Year of the Community (am al-jama'a)

عام الجماعة

c. 661 CE · 41 AH

When al-Hasan ceded the caliphate to Mu'awiya — settled in Rabi' II or Jumada I of year 41 — this year was named the Year of the Community (am al-jama'a), for the community was united upon a single caliph; in it Mu'awiya appointed Marwan ibn al-Hakam over Medina 1.

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Era
The Umayyad Period
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In time

650660670680 c.
The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period

Overview

The Year of Unity (Am al-Jama'a) is 41 AH, when al-Hasan stepped down from the caliphate in favour of Mu'awiya. Mu'awiya took up the caliphate in Rabi' al-Akhir or Jumada al-Ula. 2

The name

The year was so called because the community gathered in it under one caliph. In it, Mu'awiya appointed Marwan ibn al-Hakam over Medina. 2

Note

al-Suyuti does not affirm the month. The Gregorian date is derived and rests on a single source. It needs an additional source.

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Had participant
Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan· Hasan ibn Ali

People and things also explored

Muawiya, Hassan and Hussein· Abd al-Malik's Coinage Reform· Ali declines to keep Muawiya in office· Ali's stance during the siege of Uthman· Ali carries out the drinking penalty on al-Walid ibn Uqba· Ali frees two men who each confessed to one killing and pays the diya from the treasury· Letters between Ali and Muawiya after the Camel· the truce between ʿAli and Muʿāwiya (40 AH)

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 325
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.325
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