Hadith 44

him amnesty after a month. But this Ibn Abbas should be in charge of that’. They said, ‘By Allah-azwj! We do not mind it would be you-asws or Ibn Abbas’. He-asws said: ‘So, Al-Ashtar’. Al-Ash’as said, ‘And can anyone heat up the war apart from Al-Ashtar? And are we except in the decision of Al-Ashtar? ’
Al-Amsh said, ‘It is narrated to me by the one who saw Ali-asws on the day of Siffeen clasping his-asws hands and saying: ‘O how strange! I-asws am being disobeyed and Muawiya is being obeyed! ’ And he-asws said: ‘You have refused except for (choosing) Abu Musa? ’ They said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘Then do whatever comes to you all! O Allah-azwj! I-asws disavow from their deeds’. Al-Ahnaf said, ‘When you have chosen Abu Musa, then warm his back’. Khureym Bin Fatik Al-Asady said, ‘If only the people had a view they could be guided by. The people of Al-Iraq cast you with Ibn Abbas, but they cast you with an old man from Yamen who did not even know what is a sixth of a strike and a fifth’. When they gathered, the scribe of Ali-asws was Ubeydullah Bin Abu Rafie, and scribe of Muawiya was Umeyr Bin Abbad Al-Kalby. Ubeydullah wrote, ‘This is what is judged upon by Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws and Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan’. Amro said, ‘Write his-asws name and name of his-asws father-as. He-asws is your commander, as for our commander, so no’. Al-Ahnaf said, ‘Do no delete the name ‘Amir Al-Momineen’’. Ali-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj is the Greatest! ’ Sunnah by a Sunnah, and an example with an example, and I-asws was the scribe on the day of Al-Hudeybiya’’. [160]
And it is reported by Ahmad Bin Al Musnad, ‘The Prophet-saww instructed that he (Ali-asws) writes: ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’. Suheyl Bin Amro said, ‘This is an agreement between us and you-saww, so begin it with what we recognise, and write, ‘In Your-azwj Name, O Allah-azwj’’
He-saww instructed with the deletion of that and wrote: ‘In Your-azwj Name, O Allah-azwj. This is what has been reconciled upon by Muhammad-saww Rasool-Allah-saww and Suheyl Bin Amro and the people of Makkah’. Suheyl said, ‘If I were to answer to this, I would be acknowledging to you-saww with the Prophet-hood’. He-saww said: ‘Delete it, O Ali-asws! ’ He-asws went on to delay and refused. The Prophet-saww deleted it and wrote: ‘This is what has been reconciled upon by Muhammad-saww Bin Abdullah-as Bin Abdul Muttalib-as, and the people of Makkah’. Allah-azwj Said in His-azwj Book: There would always be for you all, in (the person of) Rasool-Allah, an excellent exemplar [33: 21]’’. [161]
And it is reported by Muhammad Bin Is’haq, from Bureyda Bin Sufyan, from Muhammad Bin Ka’ab, ‘The Prophet-saww said to Ali-asws: ‘Surely for you-asws would be its like. You would be given it and would be persecuted’’. [162]