THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST OF SYRIA pdf download

The Islamic Conquest of Syria – Futuhusham – A translation of Futihusham: the inspiring history of the Sahabah’s 4 conquest of Syria as narrated by the great historian of Islam, al-Imam al-Waqidi Translated by Mawlana Sulayman al-Kindi

THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST OF SYRIA

Futihusham is an Arabic book by al-Imaém al-Waqidi describing the Sahabah’s & conquest of ash-Sham (which today includes Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and parts of Arabia, Iraq and Turkey). Having been requested to translate this book into English,

 I accepted primarily to earn Allah’s pleasure from whatever good might arise from it and also to attain two secondary goals.  Firstly, Rastlullah & said with regard to loving the Sahabah,

“Whoever loves them, loves them because he ……book can be used to inculcate the love of the Sahabah in the reader’s heart, love for Rastilullah & is also increased.

This subject needs no elaboration since ‘Ulama have extensively dealt with it.  However, the second goal of making Muslims realise the importance of History needs more elaboration. Muslims are generally ignorant of their history, thus developing an inferiority complex towards the West.

 This is, in fact, a deliberate strategy by the West. In the past, great ‘Ulama of all mathahib have rendered service to the science of History.

Ibn Khaldin al- Maliki is globally recognised to be the father of the principles of studying history. Ibn Jawzi al-Hambali noted, “A faqih has to have knowledge of other sciences like history…”

The Mufassir, Ibn Kathir ash-Shafi‘i put great effort in compiling his celebrated history book, ‘Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah’.

Similarly al-Imam al-Bukhari also saw the need for studying and compiling works on history.