Hadith 23

my, a group from the hypocrites from the ones who had frightened (the camel of) Rasool-Allah-saww on the night of Aqabah, received me’. He (Aqeel) said, ‘Who is this one on your right, O Muawiya? ’ He said, ‘This is Amro Bin Al-Aas’. He said, ‘This is the one (for whom) six persons had disputed regarding him (at his birth) and their butcher overcame upon it. So, who is the other one? ’ He said, ‘Al-Zahhak Bin Qays Al-Fihry’. He said, ‘But, by Allah-azwj! His father was good at seizing, bad of breath. So, who is this other one? ’ He said, ‘Abu Musa Al-Ashari’. He said, ‘This is the son of someone else’. When Muawiya saw that his gatherers were angered, he said, ‘O Ibn Yazeed! What are you saying regarding me? ’ He said, ‘Leave about you’. He said, ‘Say it’. He said, ‘Do you know Hamamah? ’ He said, ‘And who is Hamamah? ’ He said, ‘I have told you (what I wanted to say)’. And Aqeel went. Muawiya sent for the lineage expert. He said, ‘Inform me about Hamamah’. He said, ‘Grant me safety upon myself and my family’. He granted it. He said, ‘Hamamah is your (great) grandmother, and she was a prostitute during the pre-Islamic period. There was a flag (of prostitution) for her she could be come to’’. [68]
And Ibn Abi Al Hadeed said in commentary of (the book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘Muawiya, he is Abu Abdul Rahman Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan Sakhar Bin Harb Bin Umayya Bin Abd Shams Bin Abd Manaf, and his mother was Hind Bint Utbah Bin Rabie Bin Abd Shams Bin Abd Manaf. And Abu Sufyan, he is the one who guided Quraysh during their wars against the Prophet-saww, and Hind was mentioned in Makkah with immoralities and adultery’’. [69]
And Al Zamakshari said in the book ‘Rabie Al Abrar’ –
‘Muawiya was attributed to four – to Musafir Bin Abu Amro, and to Amarah Bin Al-Waleed Bin Al-Mugheira, and to Al-Abbas Bin Abdul Muttalib, and to Al-Sabah a singer of Amarah Bin Al-Waleed. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Abu Sufyan was disgusting (looking), short, and Al-Sabah was a labourer of Abu Sufyan, a handsome youth. Hind invited him to herself, and he slept with her. And they say that Itbah Bin Abu Sufyan was from Al-Sabah as well. And they say that she disliked giving birth to him in her house, so she went out to Ajyad (outskirts of Al-Bat’ha) and gave birth to him over there. And in this meaning, Hasaan (the poet) during the days of satire between the Muslims and the Polytheists, during the lifetime of Rasool-Allah-saww, before the year of the conquest (of Makkah), ‘For whom is the child at the side of Al-Bat’ha? Thrown in the soil without there being a cradle. Achieving with him clear comfort from Abd Shams, connected to Al-Hind’’. [70]
Ibn Abi Al Hadeed said, ‘Muawiya ruled for forty-two years, from these twenty-two years he ruled the emirate of Syria since his brother Yazeed Bin Abu Sufyan died, after five years from the caliphate of Umar up to the killing of Amir Al-Momineen-asws in the year forty, and from these twenty years he was a caliph until he died in the year sixty. And he was one of the scribes of Rasool-Allah-saww, and there is a differing regarding him being a scribe for him-saww. How could this be so, for that which the investiga