Abū Bakrah al-Thaqafī 传述：先知穆罕默德ﷺ有一天带着他的外孙al-Ḥasan出来，并与他一同登上讲坛。然后，他ﷺ说：“我的这个儿子是一位领袖，或许安拉将借他之手，使穆斯林中的两个派别和解。”301 事实上，al-Ḥasan在继任哈里发后，独自弥合了库法穆斯林与沙姆穆斯林之间长期而悲惨的分裂：他将哈里发之位让给了Mu‘āwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān。通过这一举动，他使两大信众派别重新团结，并使伊斯兰的发展得以恢复势头，持续了数十年。先知ﷺ还预言，正是在这一关键时刻，穆斯林民族将从哈里发制转变为君主制。“哈里发制将持续三十年，此后将是君主制。”302 Abū Bakr执政约两年，随后‘Umar执政十年，‘Uthmān执政十二年，‘Alī执政五年，之后al-Ḥasan在数月之内将哈里发之位让给了Mu‘āwiyah，后者创立了倭马亚王朝。Ibn al-‘Arabī（卒于1148年）说：“诚实者ﷺ的应许实现了……［哈里发时期］既未多出一天，也未少了一天。赞美那包罗万象者，除他之外别无主宰。”303

Abū Bakrah al-Thaqafī  narrated that the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم brought his grandson al-Ḥasan  out one day and ascended with him to the pulpit. Then, he صلى الله عليه وسلم said, “This son of mine is a chief, and perhaps Allah will use him to reconcile between two factions of Muslims.”301 In truth, al-Ḥasan singlehandedly mended a long and tragic split between the Muslims of Kufa and those of Shām upon becoming caliph, by abdicating his caliphate to Mu‘āwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān . In doing so, he unified two great factions of believers and allowed the progress of Islam to regain its momentum for decades. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم also foretold that, at this precise point, the Muslim nation would transition from a caliphate to a monarchy. “The caliphate will be for thirty years, then there will be a monarchy after that.”302 Abū Bakr ruled for approximately two years, then ‘Umar for ten, then ‘Uthmān for twelve, then ‘Alī for five, before al-Ḥasan within months abdicated it to Mu‘āwiyah who founded the Omayyad dynasty. Ibn al-‘Arabī (d. 1148) says, “And the promise of the Truthful صلى الله عليه وسلم came to pass… [the period of the caliphate] neither exceeded nor fell short a day, so glory be to the All-Encompassing; there is no other Lord but He.”303