Hadith 334

And it is reported by Nasr, from Muhammad Bin Ubeydullah, from Al Jarjany who said, ‘When Amro spent the night in the presence of Muawiya and it was morning, he gave him Egypt as a taster and wrote out an agreement for him and said, ‘What is your view? ’ He said, ‘Accomplish the first view’. So Muawiya sent Malik Bin Hubeyra in search of Ibn Abu Huzeyfa. He came across him and killed him. And he sent gifts to Caesar and made up with him. Then Muawiya said to Amro, ‘What is your view regarding Ali-asws’. He said, ‘I view that there is good in it. There has come to you in this allegiance goodness of the people of Al-Iraq, and from the presence of the good people among souls of the people, and your calling people of Syrian to return this allegiance is severe danger, and the head of the people of Syria is Shirjeel Bin Al-Simt Al-Kindy, and he is an enemy of Jareer. Send a message to him and tread upon your trustworthy ones for him, and let him investigate among the people the killing of Usman, and let them be the people of pleasure in the presence of Shirjeel, for it is a word to unite the people of Syria to you upon what you like, and ones to cling to something with his heart and it will not come out, ever! ’
Muawiya called Yazeed Bin Labeyd and Bisr Bin Artah, and Amro bin Sufyan, and Mukhariq Bin Al-Hars Al-Zaydi, and Hamza Bin Malik, and Habis Bin Saeed Al-Taie, then he wrote to Shirjeel, ‘Jareer Bin Abdullah has arrived to us from direction of Ali-asws with a horrible matter, so come over’. Shirjeel consulted the people of Al-Yemen, from the people of Hams, and they differed upon it. Abdul Rahman Bin Ghanam stood up to him, and he was a companion of Muaz and his son in-law, and he was most understanding of the people of Syria. He forbade him from travelling to Muawiya and advised him, and he was forbidden as well by Ayaz Al-Yamani, and he was a monk. But Shirjeel refused except that he would travel to Muawiya. When he arrived to him, the people received him and revered (honoured) him and he entered to see Muawiya. Muawiya said to him, ‘O Shirjeel! Jareer Bin Abdullah is calling up to pledge allegiance to Ali-asws, and Ali-asws is best of the people, if only he-asws had not killed Usman, and I have withheld myself upon you, and rather I am a man from the people of Syria. I am pleased to what they are pleased, and I dislike what they dislike’. Shirjeel said, ‘I shall go out and consider’. He went out and met a number of them who had been trod upon for him, all of them informed him that Ali-asws had killed Usman. He returned angry to Muawiya and said, ‘O Muawiya! The peo