Wa’adin mulkin gwamna a wata lardi ba zai yi tsawo ba. Dole ne a sauke shi duk lokacin da ya samu kafa sosai a lardin, ko kuma jama’a su yi masa sha’awa fiye da kima.

The governor’s term of office in a particular province is not to be long. He must be discharged whenever he becomes firmly established in his province or the people become enchanted with him.

Dalilin hakan shi ne cewa Manzon Allah (ﷺ) yana naɗa gwamnoni na wani lokaci, sannan ya cire su, kuma babu wani gwamna da ya ci gaba da riƙe gwamnatinsa tsawon dukan lokacin zamanin Manzon Allah (ﷺ). Ibn Abdul Birr ya ruwaito a cikin Al-Isti’ab cewa Manzon Allah (ﷺ) ya naɗa ’Uthman b. Abi Al-’As Al-Thaqafi a matsayin gwamnan Al-Ta’if; ya ci gaba da zama a can har tsawon rayuwar Manzon Allah (ﷺ) da Khilafar Abu Bakr (ra) da shekara biyu na Khilafar Umar (ra), inda aka cire shi a lokacin, kuma hakan abu ne da ba kasafai yake faruwa ba. Mafi yawan lokacin zamanin Manzon Allah (ﷺ), ba ya tsawaita lokacin mutane a matsayin gwamnoni. Wannan yana nuna cewa ba a naɗa gwamna a matsayin gwamnati ta dindindin ba, sai dai an naɗa shi na takamaiman lokaci, sannan a cire shi. Duk da haka, tsawon lokacin gwamnatinsa ba a ƙayyade shi da wani lokaci da aka tsara, ko gajere ko dogo, domin babu wani abu da yake nuna hakan daga ayyukan Manzon Allah (ﷺ). Abin da za a iya faɗa game da wannan batu shi ne: mafi yawan lokuta da Manzon Allah (ﷺ) ya naɗa gwamna, gwamnan ba ya ci gaba da zama a can tsawon dukan lokacinsa; a maimakon haka, yakan naɗa su sannan ya cire su.

Its proof is that the Messenger (pbuh) used to appoint governors for a period and then remove them and no governor remained over his governorship for the complete period of the time of the Messenger (pbuh) . Ibn Abdul Birr conveyed in Al-Isti’ab that the Messenger (pbuh) appointed ’Uthman b. Abi Al-’As Al301 Thaqafi over Al-Ta’if; he remained there through the life of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and the Khilafah of Abu Bakr (ra) and two years of the Khilafah of Umar (ra) at which point he was removed, which was a rare occurrence. For most of the time of the Messenger (pbuh) , he would not extend people’s time as governors. This indicates that a governor is not appointed to a permanent governorship but rather he is appointed for a specific time and then removed. However, the length of his governorship is not defined by a specific period, long or short, since there is nothing that indicates that from the actions of the Messenger (pbuh) . The most that can be said about the issue is that most of the time the Messenger (pbuh) appointed a governor, he did not remain as a governor there through the whole of his time; rather he would appoint and then remove them.

Duk da cewa an halatta a tsawaita wa’adin gwamnan lardi, kamar abin da ya faru da ’Uthman b. Abi Al-’As, amma a bayyane yake cewa tsawon wa’adin mulkin Mu’awiya a Al-Sham a zamanin Umar (ra) da kuma ’Uthman (ra) ne ya haifar da fitinar da ta girgiza al’amarin Musulmi. Don haka ana fahimtar daga wannan cewa tsawaita wa’adin mulkin gwamna a lardi yana haifar da cutarwa ga Musulmi da Gwamnati, kuma bisa wannan ne aka sanya kalmomin cewa wa’adin mulkin gwamna kada ya yi tsawo a cikin wannan labarin.

Though it is permitted to extend the period of governorship such as what occurred with ’Uthman b. Abi Al-’As, however it is apparent that the length of the period of the governorship of Mu’awiyah in Al-Sham at the time of Umar (ra) and then ’Uthman (ra), caused what resulted in the strife which shook the entity of the Muslims, and so it is understood from this that lengthening the governorship of the governor in the province results in harm upon the Muslims and the State, and based upon this the words that the term of office for the governor is not to be long were drafted into this article.