Hadith 29

s, and my grief would be honourable in his-asws remoteness, and I would know that Allah-azwj did not Cause my Master-asws and my Imam-asws to pass away until He-azwj Made a Divine Authority to be from his-asws sons-asws, standing up to the Day of Qiyamah’. He said, ‘O sheykh! Have you left any matter you can be priding with from after you? ’ He said, ‘I am leaving behind the blonde horse and the stones and the mud, and the program for the one who wants the ascent’. Amro Bin Al-Aas said, ‘Perhaps he does not recognise you, O commander of the faithful! ’ Muawiya asked him. He said, ‘O sheykh! Do you know me? ’ The sheykh said, ‘And who are you? ’ He said, ‘I am Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan. I am the pure tree, and the lofty branch, chief of the clan of Umayya’. The sheykh said to him, ‘But you are the one accursed upon the tongue of His-azwj Prophet-saww, and in His-azwj Clarifying Book. Allah-azwj the Exalted Said: and the Accursed tree in the Quran; [17: 60], and the wicked tree, and the uprooted root, and vile who is unjust to himself and to his Lord-azwj. And His-azwj Prophet-saww said regarding him: ‘The caliphate is prohibited unto the son of Abu Sufyan, the ignoble son of an ignoble, son of the liver-eater, his injustice is widespread among the servants’. Muawiya was furious at that and raged at him. He moved his hand towards a custodian of his sword and thought of killing the sheykh, then said, ‘If the pardoning had not been better, I would have taken your head’. Then he said, ‘What is your view, if I were to do that? ’ The sheykh said, ‘Then, by Allah-azwj, I shall win with the happiness and you would attain the wretchedness, and the one who is eviler than you has been killed by one who is better than me, and Usman is eviler than you are! ’
Muawiya said, ‘O sheykh! Were you present at the day of the house? ’ He said, ‘And what is the day of the house? ’ Muawiya said, ‘The day Ali-asws killed Usman’. The sheykh said, ‘By Allah-azwj, he-asws did not kill him, and had he-asws done that, it would have been with the sharpened swords and strong forearms, and during that he-asws would have been obedient to Allah-azwj and to His-azwj Rasool-saww’. Muawiya said, ‘O sheykh! Were you present on the day of Siffeen? ’ He said, ‘And I was not absent from it’. He said, ‘How were you in it? ’ The sheykh said, ‘Children had been orphaned due to you, and women were widowed due to you, and I was like the lion striking with the sword at times, and with the spear at other times’. Did you strike at me with anything? ’ The sheykh said, ‘I had hit you with seventy three arrows, for I am the shooter of the two arrows, those which fell in your cloak, and shooter of the two arrows which fell into your Masjid, and shooter of the two arrows which fell in your upper arm, and if you were to uncover it now, I will show you their places’. Muawiya said, ‘O sheykh! Were you present on the day of the camel