Hadith 29

rom Abd Shams? ’’[109]
(The book) ‘Al Fazail’ of Ibn Shazan – Jabir Bin Abdullah Al Ansari said, ‘Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan and I were at Syria. While we were (together) one day when we looked at an old man and he was coming from the middle of the wilderness from the direction of Al-Iraq. Muawiya said, ‘Come with us to this old man. Let us ask him where he is coming from and to where is he intending (to go)’. And with Muawiya were Abu Al Awr Al-Aslami, and two sons of Muawiya – Khalid and Yazeed-la, and Amro Bin Al-Aas. He (Jabir) said, ‘We went to him. Muawiya said to him, ‘Where are you coming from, O sheykh, and where are you intending? ’ But the old man did not answer him. Amro Bin Al-Aas said to him, ‘Why are you not answering commander of the faithful? ’ He said, ‘Surely Allah-azwj has Made the salutation for someone other than this one’. Muawiya said, ‘You speak the truth, O sheykh! You are correct, and we are mistaken, and you have done good and we have done evil. The greetings be unto you, O sheykh! ’ The sheykh said, ‘And upon you be the greetings’. Muawiya said, ‘What is your name, O sheykh? ’ He said, ‘My name is Jablun’. And that sheykh was obviously in his old age. In his hand was something from the iron, and in the middle of it was tied a ribbon of jute, and in his legs were two slippers of jute, and upon him was a cloak, its stitching had fallen off and its hole had remained, and the softness of his cheeks had appeared, and his eyebrows had covered upon his eyes. Muawiya said, ‘O sheykh! Where are you coming from, and to where are you intending? ’ He said, ‘I come from Al-Iraq. I intend Bayt Al-Maqdas’. Muawiya said, ‘How did you leave Al-Iraq as? ’ He-asws said, ‘Upon good, and the Blessings, and the hypocrisy’. He said, ‘Perhaps you are coming from Al-Kufa, from Al-Ghary’. The sheykh said, ‘And what is Al-Ghary? ’ Muawiya said, ‘That in which is Abu Turab-asws’. The sheykh said, ‘Who do you mean with that, and who is Abu Turab-asws? ’ He said, ‘The son-asws of Abu Talib-asws’. The sheykh said to him, ‘May Allah-azwj Rub your nose, and may Allah-azwj Bruise your mouth, and may Allah-azwj Curse your mother and your father! And why did you not say, ‘The just Imam-asws, and the torrential rain, leader (Yasoub) of the religion, and killer of the Polytheists and the deviants and the renegades, and the unsheathed sword of Allah-azwj, son-asws of an uncle-as of the Rasool-saww, and husband of the chaste, crown of the jurists, and a treasure of the poor, and fifth of the people of the cloak, and the overcoming lion, father of Al-Hassan-asws, Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, upon him-asws be the Salawaat and the greetings’. Muawiya said at that, ‘O sheykh! I see that your flesh and blood has mingled with the flesh of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws and his-asws blood, until if Ali-asws were to die, what would you do? ’ He said, ‘I will not accuse my Lord-azwj for his-asws los