省长在某个省的任期不宜过长。一旦他在该省根基稳固，或民众对他产生了过度的迷恋，就必须将他罢免。

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.

它的证据是：先知（愿主赐福他并使他平安）会在一段时间内任命总督，然后将其撤换，而在先知（愿主赐福他并使他平安）在世的整个时期，没有任何一位总督始终担任其职位直至期满。伊本·阿卜杜勒·巴尔在《伊斯提阿布》中转述，先知（愿主赐福他并使他平安）任命欧斯曼·本·阿比·阿斯·赛给菲为塔伊夫的总督；他在先知（愿主赐福他并使他平安）在世时、艾布·伯克尔（愿主喜悦他）的哈里发任期内，以及欧麦尔（愿主喜悦他）哈里发任期的两年里一直任职，之后才被撤换，而这种情况是罕见的。在先知（愿主赐福他并使他平安）的大部分时期，他不会延长人们担任总督的时间。这表明，总督并非被任命为终身职位，而是被任命于特定的时间段，之后便被撤换。然而，其任期的长短并没有由某个特定期限来界定，无论长短，因为从先知（愿主赐福他并使他平安）的行为中没有任何迹象表明这一点。关于这一问题，最多只能说：大多数时候，先知（愿主赐福他并使他平安）任命了总督，但他们并未在任地担任整个期限，而是先被任命，随后被撤换。

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.

虽然延长总督任期是被允许的，例如乌斯曼·本·阿比·阿斯（'Uthman b. Abi Al-'As）的情况，但很明显，在欧麦尔（ra）时期及随后乌斯曼（ra）时期，穆阿维叶（Mu'awiyah）在沙姆（Al-Sham）担任总督的任期过长，导致了动摇穆斯林共同体的纷争。由此可知，延长省级总督的任期会对穆斯林和国家造成损害，基于此，本条款中写入了总督任期不宜过长的规定。

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.