(1) Omar Bin Abdull aziz

(2) 99-101 A.H.

عبدُالعَزِيْزِ الفَاضِلُ الأَجَـلُّ
وكانَ فِيْهِ كَأَبي حَفْصٍ عُمَرْ(3)
وأَرْبَعُونَ وشُهُـــورٍ جَدُّهُ(5)​

فعُمَــــرُ التَّقِــــــيُّ ذَاكَ نجْــلُ
مَنْ بِالتُّقَى والدِّيْنِ والعَدْلِ اشْتَهَرْ
عَامَانِ خمسةُ شُهُورٍ عَدُّهُ (4)​

Omar Bin Abd AlAziz  Dinar

  Year of mint: 100 A.H | |Wt:4.22 gm  | Diameter : 20.4 ml

Obverse.

engraved  :  None has the right to be worshipped except Allah and Muhammad his messenger .He it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad  ) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), that He may make it (Islam) superior over all religions.                                     

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Reverse.

Engraved: "He is Allah, (the) One. "Allah-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks). "He begets not, nor was He begotten.

Footnote: By the name of Allah, this Dinar was mint in the year 100 A.H.

(1) He is Omar bin Abdul Aziz bin Marwan bin Hakam bin Abu al-Aas bin Umayyad.

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(2) Omar bin Abdul Aziz became the Emir by a coincidence of history. When the Omayyad Emir Sulaiman (714-717) lay on his deathbed as he was nominated as it will be mention later .He died affected by his sickness in the district  called Dayr-Sima'an about Emessa  near Homs in Friday and said in Wednesday -- on the 20th or as some say the 25th of Rajab of the year 101 , he being at that time thirty-nine years and six months old. (ALbediah w alnehaia 9/183).

In the story of his succession Ibn Kathir said:  Ibn Jarir narrated that Raja-b-Hayat- who was a trusted minister in the Umayyad-  said : When Sulayman was  sick, he consulted me to " who is to succeed me in this authority ? Shall I appoint my son Daood ?" He replied, "he is absent in Constantinople that nobody know if he is alive or dead “He said, " then my other son?” He answered, “he is a child." He said, “then whom dost thou advise?" He answered you could earn the pleasure of God by following the example of the early Caliphs. He replied, " I think that thou should appoint Omar-b-A'bdi'l A'ziz." He said, “I fear that my brothers will not consent." He rejoined, " appoint Omar, and after him Yazid-b-A'bdi'l Malik and write a document and seal it and summon them to take a covenant regarding it sealed." He replied, “verily thou hast conceived wisely." Thereupon he called for paper and wrote the covenant therein and gave it Raja, and said, " go forth unto the people and let them make a covenant regarding that which is within it, sealed as it is."

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And he went forth and said, " verily the prince o£ the faithful hath commanded ye to make a covenant of allegiance for him whose name is in this document." They said, “who is in it ?" He answered, " It is sealed—ye cannot be informed concerning the one who is in it until the Caliph death." They said, " we will not swear allegiance." And he returned to Sulayman and informed him of it, and he said, "go to the commander of the guards and the watch, and assemble the people and order them to take the oath, and he who refuses smite his neck." And they swore allegiance. Raja relates, " while I was returning, behold I met Hisham and he said to me, Raja, verily thou knowest thy credit with me, and verily the prince of the Faithful hath done a thing and I know not what it is, and verily I fear that it may be that he hath put the Caliphate from me, and if it be indeed that he hath put it aside from me, tell me while there is yet time i the affair, that I may see what to do ," and I said, " good God ! the prince of the Faithful hath asked me to conceal a thing, and shall I tell it to thee ? that can never be." Then I met Omar-b-A'bdi'l A'ziz and he said to me, “Raja, a grave thought has occurred to my mind concerning this man, I fear lest it be that he hath put the Caliphate upon me and I am not equal to this position, therefore tell me while there is yet time in the affair, perchance I may escape from it as long as I live." I said, “Good God! The prince of the Faithful asked me to conceal a thing and shall I tell it to thee?”

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When he was returning from the funeral of Suliman -Awzaa'i said: the funeral was  at the time for AlMaghrib prayer- Then he descended, and there came to him the master of the horse, and he said, " what is this?" The man replied, "The Caliph's charger." He said, " I have no need of it—bring me my mule," and they brought him his mule and he proceeded to his house. When he reached to Damascus he refused to live in the Caliphate house and preferred to stay in his house until the house of Abi Ayoub is ready to move to .people liked that decision from him , Then he called for an ink horn and wrote with his own hand to the prefects of the provinces. Raja says, " I thought that he would soon lack strength, but when I saw his actions in his correspondence, I knew that he would become powerful." ah (ALBedaiya w AlNehaia 9 / 181-183).

(3) Omar-b-A'bdi'l A'ziz related traditions on the authority of Omar-b-u'l Khattab May Allah be pleased with them.

(4) Ibn Kathir said that his succession was almost two years, five months and four days ((ALBedaiya w AlNehaia 9 / 192).

(5) Ibn Kathir said when died he been at that time thirty-nine years and six months old, and some said forty years and Allah knows ((ALBedaiya w AlNehaia 9 / 192).

A. Perhaps: Raja indicated (meaning Ibn Haywah) as in (History of the Caliphs 226).