Assertion: caliph | /r/HasProperty | a successor of muḥammad
Facets:
value: for god
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: clearly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Likewise, the famous medieval Shafiʿī scholar and Qur’ānic exegete al-Baythāwi (d.1286), explains that the caliph is a successor of Muḥammad in instituting the laws of the Sharia and safeguarding the possession of the Islamic community, further adding that the caliph must be obeyed by all of the umma.
text: / outwardly rebelled against Umayyad rule and rejected ligitimacy of first three "rightly-guided" caliphs; believed the caliph or leader should be a descendant of Muhammad
text: If it meant successor, then the caliph was clearly the successor of Muhammad (for God, being eternal, can have no successor).