Hadith 29

remove you, but he did not, so they did with him what has reached you, and by Allah-azwj, no one participated in his killing, beginning and end, except Talha and Al-Zubeyr and Ayesha. They are the ones who testified against him with the grievous matters and rallied the people against him, and Abdul Rahman Bin Awf, and Ibn Masoud, and Ammar-ra, and the Helpers in their entirety had participated with them. That had happened, yes, by Allah-azwj! I testify that since I have known you during the pre-Islamic period and, are upon one manner. has not increased you, neither little nor more, and the sign of that in you is clear. You are blaming me upon my love for Ali-asws. There went out with Ali-asws in every event, Emigrants and Helpers, just as there have gone out with you sons of the hypocrites, and the freed ones (at Makkah), and the freed slaves. You deceived them about their religion and they deceived you about your world. By Allah-azwj, O Muawiya! It is not hidden unto you what you have done, and it is no hidden upon them what they have done, when they released (for) themselves the Wrath of Allah-azwj by being in your obedience. By Allah-azwj! I will not cease to love Ali-asws for the Sake of Allah-azwj and for His-azwj Rasool-saww, and I hate you for the Sake of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww, forever, as long as I live! ’
Muawiya said, ‘And I see you upon your straying still’. (He said to the guards), ‘Return him to the prison! ’ He died in the prison’’. [107]
(The book) ‘Rijal Al Kashy’ – Muhammad Bin Masoud, from Ali Bin Abu Ali Al Khuzaie, from Muhammad Bin Ali Al Attar, from Amro Bin Abdul Gaffar, from Abu Bakr Bin Abu Ayyash, from Aasim Bin Abu Al Najoud, from the one who witnessed that, ‘When Muawiya arrived at Al-Kufa and men from the companions of Ali-asws entered to see him, and Al-Hassan-asws had already take the amnesty for them, from them were those named with their names and names of their fathers, and Sa’sa was from them. When Sa’sa entered to see him, Muawiya said to Sa’sa, ‘But, by Allah-azwj! You had hated to enter into my amnesty’. He said, ‘And I, by Allah-azwj, hate to name you with this name (amir al-momineen)’. Then he greeted unto him with the caliphate. He (the narrator) said, ‘Muawiya said, ‘If you were truthful, then ascend the pulpit and curse Ali-asws’ (Nouzobillah). He ascended the pulpit and praise Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj, then said, ‘O you people! I have come to you all from the presence of a man whose evil has arrived and his good is delayed, and he has ordered me to curse Ali-asws. So, curse him (instead), may Allah-azwj Curse him’ (Muawiya). The people of the Masjid raised a clamour with (shouts of) ‘Ameen! ’ When he returned to him and informed him with what he had said, he said, ‘No, by Allah-azwj! You did not mean apart from me. Return until you name him-asws with his-asws name’. He returned and ascended the pulpit,