Hadith 30

icial to the slaves (Shiites), and in those days you were counted as the son of a slave of Saqeef. You did not cease (arguing) with Umar until you repulsed him from his opinion and scared him of sectarianism within the people, so he turned back (on his decision), and you said to him, ‘What will keep you secure – and you have enmity to the People-asws of the Household – that there will be a revolt, and they will go to Ali-asws taking to him-asws, so your kingdom will decline’. So, he (Umar) held back from that. O my brother! I do not know, of a son born from the children of Abu Sufyan, who is more sinister to him than you when you repulsed Umar from his opinion and prevented him from it. He (Umar) informed me that, you influenced him to change his opinion with regards to killing them. You quoted (to Umar) from what you had heard from Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws say: ‘You will be struck by the non-Arabs in this religion later on just as you are striking them in the beginning’, and he-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj will Fill your hands from the non-Arabs, then they will become severe, not running away. They will strike your necks and will overpower your armies’. He (Umar) said to you, ‘I have heard that from the Rasool-Allah-saww, and that is why I wrote the letter to your companion for killing them, and it is a great thing to me, and that I have written to my office bearers in the rest of the cities for that’. You said to Umar, ‘Do not do it, O Amir-Al-Momineen, for you will not be secure that they will call upon Ali-asws for his-asws help, and they are many, and you are well aware of the bravery of Ali-asws and the People-asws of his-asws Household and their-asws enmity towards you and your companion’, so you repulsed him from that. You informed me that you did not repulse him from that except for nervousness and you did not turn back due to cowardice. And you informed me that you mentioned that to Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws during the era of Usman, so he informed you that: ‘The companions of the black banners which will come to you from Khorasaan, who are the non-Arabs, and they are the ones who will overcome the clan of Umayya on their kingdom, and they will kill them under every planet (place). Had you not – O my brother – stopped Umar from his opinion, his way would have flowed, Allah-azwj would have Eradicated them and Cut off their origins, and the Caliphs to come after him would have made it to be their policy until not a single heir of them would have remained, not even a finger nail, and no one to inflame the fire, for they are a scourge for the religion. I have (no count) of the numerous things Umar has enacted in this community in opposition to the Sunnah of the Rasool-Allah-saww, so the people followed these and took (as a religion). So, this one would also have become one of these. From these is the transference of Al-Maqaam (standing place of Ibrahim-as) from the place where the Rasool-Allah-saww had placed it, and the Sa’a of the Rasool-Allah-saww and his-saww Mudda (units of measurement) altering it and increasing it, and the prevention of