The particular title Rightly Guided Caliphs is applied here to the four leaders counted among the believers at the time of the verse's revelation.
Muʿāwiyah had not yet embraced Islam when the verse was revealed. Al-Ḥasan and ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr were then young and had not reached maturity. They are therefore not included in this particular identification of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs.
The general term caliphate and the specific title Rightly Guided Caliphate must be distinguished.
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The Rightly Guided Caliphate, Ten Promised Paradise, the Righteous Predecessors and Saints
The particular title Rightly Guided Caliphs is applied here to the four leaders counted among the believers at the time of the verse's revelation.
Muʿāwiyah had not yet embraced Islam when the verse was revealed. Al-Ḥasan and ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr were then young and had not reached maturity. They are therefore not included in this particular identification of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs.
The general term caliphate and the specific title Rightly Guided Caliphate must be distinguished.