𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐲𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦
Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (386) said:
❝There was never a single Umayyad caliph who introduced an innovation (bid‘ah) into Islām.
Most of their governors and officials were Arabs.
However, when the caliphate was removed from them in the East and passed to the Abbasids, their state was established through ‘Ajam (non-Arabs), and leadership/governorship became dominated by them. Among many of their leaders, there was disbelief (kufr) and hatred toward the Arabs and the Islamic state.
As a result, they introduced events and changes in Islām that signaled the ruin of the religion.
If it were not for Allāh’s promise to His Prophet ﷺ that His religion and its people would remain dominant until the Day of Judgment, they would have destroyed Islām completely.
But instead, they only managed to weaken it and damage its foundations. However, Allāh will fulfill His promise (of preserving his religion) Inshā’Allāh.❞
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[Al-Hujjah ‘Alā Tārik al-Mahajjah p. 683]
I say: Allāh has also used some of the ‘Ajam (non-Arabs) to preserve His religion and to become a thorn on the side of the people of innovation like our A’immah ‘Abdullāh bin al-Mubārak, Ishāq bin Rahawayh, ‘Abd Ar-Rahmān bin Mahdī and other than them رحمهم الله أجمعين