Why Did the Early Caliphate Face Crisis After Every Succession? - The Saqifa Meeting and the Birth of the Caliphate | Sleepy Facts About History

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Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In June of the year 632, as Prophet Muhammad lay unwashed and unburied in a small room in Medina, a handful of men crowded into a roofed enclosure to answer a question no one had prepared for: what holds this community together now that the prophet is gone? The crisis of succession that unfolded in those first hours was not a coronation, but an urgent argument, a contested handclasp, and an improvised political settlement that would shape one of...