Hadith 68

(The book) ‘Irshad Al-Quloob’ – From Jabir Bin Abdullah Al-Ansari, and Abdullah Bin Al-Abbas, both said, ‘We were seated in the presence of Abu Bakr during his governance, and the day had brightened, and there was Khalid Bin Al-Waleed Al-Makhzumy who had arrived among an army. Its dust was raised and the neighing of the cavalry horses was a lot, and there he had a rod in his neck having been twisted with a twisting. He came until he descended from his horse and entered the Masjid and paused in front of Abu Bakr. The people stared at him with their eyes and his scene terrified them. Then he said, ‘Will you not dispense justice, O Ibn Abu Quhafa, when the people have made you to be in this place which you aren’t rightful of it! ? And I have not been raised to this place except just as the floater (dead) from the fish upon the water, and rather it floats and rises when there is no movement with it. What is the matter and politics of the armies, and sending the soldiers, and you are where you are, from the soft affiliation, and inverted lineage, and weak of strength, and little of achievement. You neither protect fruits, nor ignite fires. May Allah-azwj not Recompense goodly the brother of Saqeef and son of Suhaak! I have returned foolishly from Al-Taif to Jeddah in seeking the apostates, and I saw Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws and with him-asws was a group of transgressors from the Religion of Hamaleeq, shooting their eyes from envying you, manifesting rage upon you, and injured deeply of your position. From them is Ibn Yasser, and Al-Miqdad-ra, and Ibn Junada-ra brother of Ghifar, and Ibn Al-Awwam, and two boys, I recognise one of them by his face, and a brown boy, perhaps he is from the sons of Aqeel, his-asws brother. The dislike appeared to me in their faces, and the jealousy in the redness of their eyes, and Ali-asws was covered by the armour of Rasool-Allah-saww, and he-asws was wearing his-saww cloak, Al-Sahhab. His-asws animal Al-Uqab had been saddled for him-asws, and Ali-asws had descended at a water spring, its name is Ruwayya. When he-asws saw me, he-asws was disgusted and murmured, and lowered his-asws head rudely and held his-asws beard. I rushed to him-asws with the greeting, sufficing, and fearing, and awed. I seized atmosphere and ease of the encampment, and the ones with me descended where they had descended, fearing from his-asws dodging. Ibn Yasser initiated me with ugly words and pure enmity, and they hurt me mocking with what you had sent to me with your evil opinion. The short-haired one (Ali-asws) turned towards me, and the speech had abounded in his-asws circle like the growling of the lion, or like a piece of thunder. He-asws said to me with anger from him-asws: ‘Or were you going to do it, O Abu Suleyman! ? ’ I said to him-asws, ‘Yes, by Allah-azwj! If I were to stand by his (Abu Bakr’s) opinion, I would strike off that in which are your-asws eyes’. My words angered him-asws when I ratified