The Filth of Mu'awiyah and Yazid

Niʿmatullāh al-Jazāʾiri, may Allah have mercy on him, wrote:

It has been reported in many books that Yazīd had fallen in love with his aunt, and she was a virgin, but he was shy of showing that [he desired her], so he wanted to test her. He brought her to an orchard and she sat at a place, then he ordered for two horses to have sex with each other while his aunt was watching them. So when the horses had sex, Yazīd came to her and ordered her to stand up from her place, so when she stood up, he saw wetness below her. Thus he knew that she desired that, so he came to her. When he had sex with her he found out that she wasn’t a virgin, so he said to her: “Where’s your virginity?” So she said to him: “Your father hasn’t left a virgin!” [The author of the book]: So, it appeared that Muʿāwiya had “intermixed” with her, and that’s strange and astonishing. [1]

 

As for [the genealogy of] Yazīd, may Allah curse him, then his case is more famous than to be mentioned. And the way he was given birth—as reported by some of their exegetes—is that Muʿāwiya, may Allah curse him, was urinating one day when a scorpion stung his penis. So, they made him marry an old woman so that he may have sex with her and be cured by her medicine. He had sex with her once and then divorced her, so the semen mixed with the scorpion’s poison in the old woman’s womb, and thus Yazīd was conceived. This is what is well-known, but I’ve found in some of the books of the Muslims that Muʿāwiya had an Indian slave which served him, and that she was impregnated by him, and thus gave birth to Yazīd, the najis dog. [2]

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[1] The muḥaqqiq of the book, ʿAlī Qāḍhī Ṭabāṭabāʾī, wrote: “There’s no strangeness or astonishment that these things were done by Muʿāwiya the heretic or his sheep Yazīd the obstinate [in disbelief].”

[2] Al-anwār al-nuʿmānīyyah, vol. 1, p. 74, chapter on the genealogies of the caliphs.