The Rift Between Hazrat Aisha (rta), Hazrat Muawiyah (rta), And Hazrat Ali (rta)
So there were two groups. One we know as “Kharijites” who had particular rigid religious beliefs in terms of political matters for the rulers and considered Uthman against those standards they chose as their religious belief and assassinated him. They were joined by the faction later known as ‘shian ali’ who considered the situation conducive for their religious concept of Imamate and tried to ‘mobilize’ Ali to establish their concept of Imamate which was opposed by Ayesha and Muawiyah. Ali never subscribed for this concept of Imamate but he had the opinion to establish his caliphate before going ahead with ‘qisas’ of Uthman and to do away with the faction to curb the concept of Imamate. That is the reason he agreed on Tahkim. This Tahkim was against the political motives of that particular faction later known as ‘shian ali’ and they assassinated him as well. The same was repeated with Hasan and then Husayn. What do you think?
What appears is that there was a group known as ‘shian ali’ who tried to get political power and utilized Ali and his family as a mean. They were in minority and it was not possible for them to be in political power through ‘amruhum shura bainahum’. They coined and propagated the cocnept of divine political authority of Ali and his family – ‘imamate’ and in this way tried to use him for their political gains. This prevails to-date.
The concept it Ali and his family divinely designated came much later in their doctrine, it was not there in the lifetime of Ali.
The people who assasinated Uthman and subsequently became supportes of Ali infact used Ali’s name to fragment and shatter oneness and solidarity of Muslim ummah. They for their worldly desire in political matters used religion as a mean to gain political power making use of the shoulder of Ali devising the concept of divine political authority of ali and his family thus seeking share in political power…