Hadith 19

lah-azwj is Sufficient for me-asws’. Twelve from the group of the participants of Badr stood up and said, ‘We testify that when Rasool-Allah-saww preached on the day in which he-saww passed away, Umar Bin Al-Khattab stood up angrily and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww, all the People-asws of your-saww Household? ’
He-saww said: ‘No, but my-saww successors-asws. My-saww brother among them-asws, who is my-saww Vizier, and my-saww inheritor, and my-saww Caliph in my-saww community, and the Guardian of every believer after me-asws, this is their first and their last. Then my-saww successor-asws is this son-asws of mine-saww’ – and he-saww gestured towards Al Hassan-asws – ‘Then his-asws successor-asws is this’ – and he-saww indicated to Al Husayn-asws – ‘Then successor-asws of my-saww son-asws’ – ‘Then my-saww successor-asws is my-saww son-asws’ – and he-saww named, ‘Then his-asws successor-asws, then seven from his-asws sons-asws, one after one, until they-asws return to me-saww at the Fountain. They are the witnesses of Allah-azwj in His-azwj earth, and His-azwj Proofs over His-azwj creatures. The one who obeys them has obeyed Allah-azwj, and the one who disobeys them-asws has disobeyed Allah-azwj. The remainder of the seventy people of Badr, and like of them from the later ones stood up and said, ‘You-asws have reminded us of what we had forgotten. We testify that we have heard that from Rasool-Allah-saww’. He-asws did not leave out anything except he-asws adjured them regarding it, until he-asws came to the last of his-asws virtues and what Rasool-Allah-saww had said regarding it. During all that they were ratifying him-asws and testifying that it was true. When Abu Al-Darda and Abu Hureira narrated to Muawiya of all that and with what the people had responded, he got annoyed from that and said, ‘O Abu Al-Darda, and O Abu Hureira, if what you two have narrated to me from him-asws is true, the Emigrants and the Helpers have perished, apart from himself-asws, and the People-asws of his-asws Household, and his-asws Shias’. Then Muawiya wrote to Amir-ul-Momineen-asws: ‘If what your companions have said, and claimed, and testified to is true, Abu Bakr, and Umar and Usman have perished, and all of the Emigrants and the Helpers apart from yourself-asws, and the People-asws of your-asws Household, and your-asws Shias. And it has reached me that you-asws supplicate for them and seek Forgiveness for them, and it has for it two angles and there is no third angle to it. As for dissimulation, you-asws distance yourself-asws from them fearing that the people in your-asws army would disperse from you-asws, by whom you are fighting, or that which you-asws are claiming is false and a lie. And it has reached me, and it was one of your-asws reliable and special ones who came with it, and you-asws are saying to your-asws Shias who have strayed, and your-asws devotees which is an evil entourage, that: ‘I-asws have named three of my-asws sons as Abu Bakr, and Umar, and Usman. So, if you hear from me-asws supplicating for Mercy for any one of the imams of misguidance, then I-asws mean by that to be my-asws son’. And the evidence upon that and in another report upon truthfulness: ‘What they have come with and presented to me, is what I have seen you-asws with my own eyes, so I do not need to ask about that from others. I saw you-asws make your-asws wife Fatima-asws to ride upon a mule, and took the hands of your-asws sons Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws – when they had paid allegiance to Abu Bakr – so you-asws did not leave out anyone from the people of Badr, and the former ones, except that you called upon them for their help. You-asws did not find among them any humans apart from four – Salman-ra, and Abu Zarr-ra, and Al-Miqdad-ra,