Hadith 29

then said, ‘O you people! The commander of the faithful has ordered me that I curse, Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, so, curse the one who curses Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws! ’ They shouted with ‘Ameen! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘When Muawiya was informed, he said, ‘No, by Allah-azwj! He did not mean apart from me. Expel him! Do not let him dwell in my city’. They expelled him’’. [108]
(The book) ‘Rijal Al Kashy’ –
It is reported that Al-Ahnaf Bin Qays delegated to Muawiya, and Jariyah Bin Qudama, and Al-Hubab Bin Yazeed. Muawiya said to Al-Ahnaf, ‘You were the courier to commander of the faithful Usman and abandoned mother of the believers Ayesha, and brought the water to Ali-asws are Siffeen’. He said, ‘O commander of the faithful! From that is what I know, and from it what I deny. As for commander of the faithful Usman, you community of Quraysh were present with him at Al-Medina, and the house was displaced from us of him, and the Emigrants and the Helpers were present with isolation, and you were between a forsaker and a killer. And as for Ayesha, I abandoned her regarding the outstretched arms and plenty of troops, and that is because I did not find in the Book of Allah-azwj except that she should be staying in her house. And as for my bringing the water at Siffeen, I brought when you wanted our throats to be cut with thirst’. Muawiya stood up and separated the people. Then Muawiya ordered for Al-Ahnaf with fifty thousand Dirhams, and for his companions with gifts. He said to Al-Ahnaf when he bade him farewell, ‘Your need? ’ He said, ‘You should go around the people with their gifts and their sustenance, and if you ask for help, I shall give you men from us being of solid obedience, severe prowesses. And it is said he used to hold the Alawite view, and he (Muawiya) awarded Al-Hubab with thirty thousand Dirhams, and he used to hold the Umayyad view. So, Al-Hubab came to Muawiya and said, ‘O commander of the faithful! You gave Al-Ahnaf fifty thousand Dirhams and his view is his view, and you gave me thirty thousand and my view is my view! ’ He said, ‘O Hubab! I bought his religion with it’. Al-Hubab said, ‘O commander of the faithful! You can buy my religion from me as well’. He accused him and joined him with Al-Ahnaf. Not even a week came to Al-Hubab until he died, and the wealth was returned to Muawiya exactly. Al-Farazdaq lamented Al-Hubab, ‘Are you devouring an inheritance of Al-Hubab unjustly, and inheritance of war frozen to you, melting it. Your father and my uncle, O Muawiya, inherited a heritage, and heritage chooses its relatives, and if this religion had been during the pre-Islamic period, you would have known who is the guardian, little is his pull, and if this matter was in other than in your kingdoms, you would have given it or immerse in the water drinking it, and how many fathers are there for me, O Muawiya? Was it not your father the one who was close f