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| | Hosay (Trinidad) |
 | | Between 632 AD and 680 AD, there were seven caliphs, all with some relationship to Muhammad: Abu-Bakr (632 AD), father-in-law; Umar (634 AD), father-in-law; Uthman (644 AD), son-in-law; Ali (656 AD), son-in-law; Hassan (661 AD), grandson (son of Ali); Mu'awiyah (661 AD), brother-in-law; and Yazid (680 AD), son of Mu'awiyah. |
 | | In 661 AD, Hassan, the grandson of Muhammad, stepped down after six months in favor of Mu'awiyah; he died in 669 AD after being poisoned. |
 | | In 680 AD, Hussain, the other grandson of Muhammad, did not agree with Yazid's succession of his father, Mu'awiyah, as caliph. |
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