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Ibnu Taymiyyah

Q: My question is pertaining to Ibnu taymiyyah. He is someone that deemed the Mongol invaders of the Muslim world to be non Muslim as they didn't rule according to the Law of Allah, he didn't say the same though about his own rulers even though they were not exactly entirely applying sharia and he was loyal to them and never instructed jihad against them. Did he do so on the grounds he thought it is wrong to fight the ruler or did he not deem his rulers as non Muslim in the same way he did the Mongols and if so why didn't he deem his own Mamluk rulers also non Muslim for not ruling by the Law of Allah?

Did Hazrat Umar (Radiyallahu Anhu) divorce his wives because they were unable to conceive?

Q: Did Hazrat Umar (Radiyallahu Anhu) really divorced his two wives for the reason they were unable to conceive. If yes, how can an act of a person who is so respectable in the religion - considering he did have his kids from other wives and there were great Prophets in the history who had wives unable to have children yet they weren't respected, rather they were kept as wives and their statuses were honored forever.

The status of Yazeed and the position of the narrator Abu Mikhnaf

Q: Could you explain to me the correct opinion regarding Yazeed bin Mu'aawiyah? I read the book "Revealing the True Facts of Yazeed ~ The Incident of KARBALA and the Events that Followed". I found it to be very beneficial, however I have heard that there is a weak narrator by the name of Abu Mikhnaf, who appears in some of the reports quoted in the book. Is this correct?