Hadith 29

? ’ He said, ‘And what is the day of the camel? ’ Muawiya said, ‘The day Ayesha fought against Ali-asws’. He said, ‘And I was not absent from it’. Muawiya said, ‘O sheykh! Was the truth with Ali-asws or with Ayesha? ’ He said, ‘But, it was with Ali-asws’. Muawiya said, ‘Didn’t Allah-azwj Say: and his wives are their mothers [33: 6]? And the Prophet-saww said for her: ‘Mother of the Momineen’’. The sheykh said, ‘O wives of the Prophet! [33: 32] And stay in your houses and do not display your finery like the displaying of the Pre-Islamic period before; [33: 33]. And the Prophet-saww said: ‘You-asws, O Ali-asws, are my-saww caliph upon my-saww womenfolk, and my-saww family, and their divorce is in your-asws hand’. Do you see any right being for her until she spilt the blood of the Muslims, and took away their wealth? May Allah-azwj Curse upon the unjust people, and they were both (Ayesha and Hafsa) like the wife of Noah-as (who is) in the Fire, and it is an evil abode of the Kafirs’. Muawiya said, ‘O sheykh! You have not left anything we can argue upon you, so when did the community go into the darkness and the lamps of Mercy were extinguished from them? ’ He said, ‘When you became their ruler, and Amro Bin Al-Aas its minister’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Muawiya lied down upon his shoulder from the laughter, and he was upon the back of his horse. He said, ‘O sheykh! Is there anything we can cut off your tongue with? ’ He said, ‘And what is that? ’ He said, ‘Twenty red camels, loaded with honey, and wheat, and butter, and ten thousand Dirhams you can spend upon your dependants and be assisted by it upon your time’. The sheykh said, ‘I will not accept it’. He said, ‘And why is that so? ’ The sheykh said, ‘Because I heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘A Permissible Dirham is better than a thousand Prohibited Dirhams’. Muawiya said, ‘If you stay in Damascus, I would strike off your neck’. He said, ‘I will not be staying therein with you’. Muawiya said, ‘And why is that so? ’
The sheykh said, ‘Because Allah-azwj the Exalted is Saying: And you should not incline towards those who are unjust, so the Fire would touch you, and there would not a Guardian for you all from besides Allah, then you will not be helped [11: 113], and you are the first oppressors and the last oppressor’. Then the sheykh headed towards Bayt al Maqdas’’. [110]
Kitab Al Rowza –
‘It is said, ‘Zirar, a companion of Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws entered to see Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan after his-asws passing away. Muawiya said to him, ‘O Zirar! Describe Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws to me, and his-asws satisfactory manners’. Zirar said, ‘By Allah-azwj! He-asws was of long-term planning, intense strength, the Eman was bursting out from his-asws sides, and the wisdom was spoken from his-asws tongue. His-asws words were right, and his-asws judgment was decisive. I swear I had seen him-asws at night in his-asws p