Hadith 47

(The book) ‘Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Al Salt, from Ibn Uqdah, from Ja’far Bin Abdullah Al Alawy, from his uncle Al Qasim Bin Ja’far, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al Alawy, from his father, from Abdullah Bin Abu Bakr, ‘From Abu Ja’far Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws having said: ‘It was narrated to me-asws by Abdul Rahman Bin Abi Umrah Al-Ansari who said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww named me as Abdul Rahman’. He said, ‘When it reached Ali-asws, the travelling of Talha and Al-Zubeyr (to Basra), he-asws addressed the people. He-asws praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj, and sent Salawaat upon the Prophet-saww, then said: ‘As for after, the journey of these two men has reached me-asws and their taking lightly the prisoner of Rasool-Allah-saww and their instigating the sons of the freed ones, and they deceiving upon the people with the blood of Usman and they rallied against him and did deeds with him and came out for the people to strike each other. O Allah-azwj! Suffice the Muslims against both their support (for the enemies), and Recompense them the Recompense, and Urge the people upon the going out in their pursuit’. Abu Masoud Uqba Bin Amro stood up to him-asws and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! That Salat is lost to you-asws now, in the Masjid of Rasool-Allah-saww in what is between his-saww grave and his-saww pulpit, is greater than what you-asws are wishing for from Syria and Al-Iraq. So, if you-asws would rather travel for war, Umar had stayed and was sufficed by Sa’ad in the march to Qadisiyya, and was suffice by Juzeyfa Bin Al-Yamani in the march to Nahawand, and was sufficed by Abu Musa in the march to Tustar, and was sufficed by Khalid Bin Al-Waleed in the march to Syria. If you-asws have to travel, then appoint a caliph with us, being a piece from you-asws, we will take care of him and remember you-asws by him’. Then Abu Masoud said (a poem), ‘The earth and the sky cried upon the person from us intending the people of Al-Iraq. O Vizier-asws of the Prophet-saww! The sermons are great, and the taste of the separation is bitter of taste, and when the group disputes you-asws, the it is a group who have lowered the eyes and humbled the necks; They are not say when you-asws, and I say the word of the preceding protagonist, and the eyes of Al-Hijaz would be shedding tears, and those hearts are with the paralysis, so upon you-asws is the greetings, what the sun has scattered with it, and the mirage has flashed with the sparkling’. Qays Bin Sa’ad said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! There is no one upon the earth more beloved to us to be staying among us than you-asws are, because you-asws are our star which we can be guided by, and our shelter which we can come to, and if we were to lose you-asws, we will be wronged by our land and our sky. But by Allah-azwj! If Muawiya has determined for the plotting, he will be shooting for Egypt, and will be corrupting Al Yemen, and will be greedy regarding Al-Iraq. And with him is a group who are wishing. They have drunk the killing of Usman and have sufficed with the conjecture rather than the knowledge, and with the doubt rather than the certainty, and with the