PUNISHMENT FOR THE ONE WHO ADDRESSES YAZID AS "RAZIALLAHU ANHU"

The just Caliph of Bani Ummayyah, Hadhrat Umar bin Abdul 'Aziz (May Allah SWT be well pleased with him) declared the person who addressed Yazid as "Raziallahu anhu" as liable to be punished.

This is written in "Tahdheeb ul Tahdheeb", the authoritative book on Rijal (the science of the classification of men, for the purpose of categorizing the Hadith), by Imam Ibn Hajar Asqalani, in (Vol 11, the letter "ya", Pg No. 316). Imam Ibn Hajar Haitamu has written in (As Sawaiiq Al Muhriqa" on Pg No. 132) and Imam Jalaluddin Suyuti (May Allah SWT shower His Mercy on him) in

(Tarikh ul Khulafa Pg No. 166)

Nouful bin Abu Aqrab states that, I was in the presence of Hadhrat Umar bin Abdul 'Aziz (May Allah SWT shower His Mercy on him), one person while talking about Yazid said, "Amir Ul Momineen Yazid said so and so and Amir Ul Momineen said so and so" Hadhrat Umar bin Abdul 'Aziz (May Allah SWT shower His Mercy on him) said "You address Yazid as ‘Amir Ul Momineen’?" and ordered that he should be lashed 20 times. Hence, he was lashed 20 times."

Imam Badruddin ''Aini (May Allah SWT shower His Mercy on him) writes in the interpretation of the Hadith "My Ummah will be destroyed at the hands of a few lads of Quraish………".:Yazid was the first among those lads and wrote along with Yazid's name: "On him is what he deserves."