Hadith 19

and Al-Zubayr. By my life, if you-asws were on truth, they would have answered you-asws and supported you-asws and helped you-asws, but your-asws claim was false and they did not accept it. And I heard you-asws with my own ears and you-asws said to Abu Sufyan – when he said to you, ‘They have overcome the kingdom of the son-saww of your-asws uncle-as, O son of Abu Talib-asws, and the ones who have overcome you-asws are the disgraced tribes of Quraysh; Taym and Ady’, and he claimed that he will help you – so you-asws said: ‘If I-asws find as helpers, forty men from the Emigrants and the helpers, from the former ones, I-asws would resist this man’. When you-asws did not find any apart from a group of four, you-asws paid allegiance abhorrently’. (Sulaym) said, ‘Amir-ul-Momineen-asws wrote to him: ‘As for after, I-asws have read your letter and was very surprised at what was written in it by your hand, and amplifying your words. And from the great afflictions and the grave matter upon this community is that there would be someone like you who would speak or consider public matters or for special ones, and you know who you are whose son you are, and I-asws the one you have known and you know whose son-asws I-asws am, and I-asws am answering you what you have written, with the answer. I-asws do not think that you are saying it, nor your Vizier Ibn Naabiga Amro (Bin Al Aas), who is as compatible for you just as the layers are, for he is the one who ordered you to write this letter and has decorated himself to you, and Iblees-la was present with you two along with his-la renegade companions’. And in another report: ‘And his-la renegade devils. And Rasool-Allah-saww has informed me, and made it known to me that he-saww saw twelve men upon his-saww Pulpit, being imams of misguidance from the Quraysh, ascending the Pulpit of the Rasool-Allah-saww and descending from it, who had faces of monkeys. They were reverting the community back upon its heels from the Straight Path. He-saww informed me-asws of their names, man after man, and for how long they will be ruling for, each one of them after the other. Ten of them are from the Clan of Umayya, and two men from different tribes of Quraysh. Upon these two will be the like of sins of the entire community up to the Day of Judgement, and the like of their Punishments. There is no one whose blood will be shed unjustifiably, nor a woman violated, nor an unlawful command issued without right except its burden will be upon these two (Abu Bakr and Umar). And I-asws heard him-saww say that: ‘When the Clan of Abu Al-Aas reaches to thirty men, they will take the Book of Allah-azwj to deceive by, and the servants of Allah-azwj under their authority, and the wealth of Allah-azwj for their own. And the Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O my-saww brother-asws, your-asws situation is not like mine-saww, in that Allah-azwj has Ordered me-asws that I-saww should declare the truth and Informed me-saww that He-azwj will Protect me-saww from the people, and Ordered me-saww that I-saww should struggle even though I-saww may be alone. He-azwj Said: So fight in the Way of Allah; it is not encumbered except on yourself, – and Said: and encourage the Momineen, [4: 84]. And I-saww have stayed at Mecca (for the duration) I-saww stayed, then Allah-azwj Ordered me-saww for the fighting because the Religion could not be recognised except by me-saww, nor the Law, nor the Sunnah and the Regulations, and the Limits, and the Permissibles and the Prohibition. And that the people, after me-saww, will leave what Allah-azwj has Commanded them for, and what He-azwj Commanded them regarding you-asws from your-asws Wilayah, and what has been made apparent from your-asws arguments, deliberately, not out of ignorance or th