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Not true at all.

Masjid Al-Aqua existed before the rule of Bani Omayyah and we have in our authentic books authentic Hadeeths from the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and Ahlul Bayt (AS) about the great reward of praying in Msdjid Al-Aqsa. ( Kitab al-Mahaasin by Al-Burqi, Kitab al-Faqeeh by Al-Sadouq, Thawab al-A;mahal by Al-Sadouq, al-Orwatul Wothqa by Sayyed Kadhim Al-Yazdi , Kitab Al-Mabsoot by Al-Shaikh Al-Tusi, Kitab Al-Nawaadir by Al-Rawandi, Minhaj Al-Saliheen by Ayatullah Sistani, Tahrir al-Qaseelah by Ayatullah Khomeini and many other books.

Bani Omayyah tried to divert Muslims from Makkah to Masjid Al-Aqsa during their conflict with Abdullah ibn Al-Zubair who was the ruler of Makkah for nine years.  Praying in Masjis Al-Aqsa is highly recommended but we should never do any act which can be taken by people as a support for the occupiers of Masjid Al-Aqsa.

Wassalam.

Bismillah, 

Asalamu Alaykom, 

The concept of stoning isn't mentioned in the Quran but is mentioned in the ahadith. 

Stoning is also found in various passages in bible such as the following: 

"20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you."

Deuteronomy 22:13-21

Therefore, no one from the Christians or Jews can try to argue that such a punishment is evil or wrong since they all believe that God legislated it at one point or another. 

As for the Islamic view, stoning is among the various Islamic penalties (hudūd) however, such punishments have different conditions in order for them to be implemented. It is not a simple matter for such punishments to be implemented and not any random person can do so. 

In the case of stoning, 4 upright and just witnesses must have witnessed the sexual penetration occur at the same time. This is stated in ahadith such as from Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq (as) where he gives the analogy of the act being seen like how a pencil is dipped in a pot of ink. 

Now such a condition is very difficult to be achieved and this leads one to believe that such a punishment, is meant to be more of a deterrent and highlight how grave the sin of adultery is.  

So adultery if not proven by witnesses, would then be proven by admission of the person or both parties. We find that narrations show that whenever a punishment of stoning was carried out, this would have been done due to multiple admissions by the ones who did it. The philosophy of Islam however encourages one to not expose their sins and that they should instead, sincerely repent.

Some of the ulema would also state that such punishments can only be administered under the government directly led by the ma’soum and that within our current time, these punishments, wouldn’t be able to be carried out due to the absence of ma’soum. 

Such punishments are meant to also be a purifier in this world and the punishment of the world, is way lighter than that of the akhira. 

May Allah grant you success

There is collective evil on any family even if majority of the family went with wrong and falsehood. Bani Omayyah who were cursed in Ziyarat Ashura include those wrong doers and their supporters only. Pious persons from Bani Omayyah are not included at all in this curse as we read in our authentic narrations about Sa'd Al-Khair Al-Amawi who was from the Omayyad family from the children of Abdul Aziz ibn Marwan, but was a follower of Ahlul Bayt (AS) and a student of Imam Al-Baqir (AS). Imam Al-Baqir (AS) told him that he is never included in the curse as he is a Mo'min.

The most noble family Bani Hashim had also bad persons like Abu Lahab who was a direct uncle of the Prophet (SAWA).

True faith and good deeds are the criteria always as Allah (SWT) states in Quran : Surely,the best of you in front of Allah is the most pious.Al-Ahzab;13

'Wassalam.

Writing Hadeeth was officially banned during the governments of Abu Bakr and Umar and Uthman and Bani Omayyah till the time of Umar ibn Abdul Zeez which was on years 99 till 102 after Hijra when he allowed writing Hadeeths and ordered one of Shaikhs working for the Umayyad government ( Ibn Shihab al-Zohri) to write Hadeeths which are accepted by the government that time.

Mussannaf Abdul Razzaq, Mawatta' Malik, al-Imamah wal-Siyasah are among the early books.

Wassalam.