Hadith 56

‘A truthful phrase intending falsehood with it’. Hurqous said, ‘Then repent from your-asws sin and return from your story and come out with us to our enemy (Syrian forces), we shall fight them until we meet our Lord-azwj’. Ali-asws said: ‘I-asws had wanted you to be upon that, but you disobeyed me-asws, and we have already written an agreement between us and the people, and conditions, and we have given a pact upon it and a covenant, and Allah-azwj the Exalted Said: ‘And fulfil the Covenant of Allah when you were Covenanted [16: 91]’ – the Verse. Hurqous said, ‘That is a sin befitting that we repent from it’. Ali-asws said: ‘It is not a sin, but it is a frustration from the view and weakness in the intellect, and you had gone ahead and I-asws had forbidden you from it’. Ibn Al Kawa said, ‘Now it is proven correct in our presence that you-asws aren’t an Imam-asws, and had you-asws been an Imam-asws, you would not have retracted’. He-asws said: ‘Woe be unto you all! Rasool-Allah-saww had retracted in the year of Al-Hudeybiya from fighting the people of Makkah’. They separated from Amir Al-Momineen-asws and said, ‘There is no judgment except for Allah-azwj nor obedience to the creatures in disobedience of the Creator’. And they were twelve thousand from the people of Al-Kufa and Al-Basra, and other (places), and their caller called out that the commander of the battle is Shays Bin Rabie, and commander of the Salat is Abdullah Bin Al-Kawa, and the command (caliphate) would be a consultation after the victory, and the allegiance is to Allah-azwj upon the enjoining with the good and forbidding from the evil’. And they browsed the people and they killed Abdullah Bin Khabab Bin Al-Ars, and he was his-asws office bearer at Al-Nahrawan. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘O Ibn Abbas! Go to these people and looked at what they are upon, and what they are gathering upon’. When he arrived to them, they said, ‘Woe be unto you, O Ibn Abbas! Are you disbelieving just as your companion Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws has disbelieved? ’ And their preacher Attab Bin Al-Awr Al-Sa’alby came out, so Ibn Abbas said, ‘Who built? ’ He said, ‘Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww’. He said, ‘did the Prophet-saww rule its affairs and explained its limits or not? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Did the Prophet-saww remain in the house of (Makkah) or did he-saww depart? ’ He said, ‘But, he-saww departed’. He said, ‘Did the matters of Law depart with him-asws or remained after him-saww? ’ He said, ‘But, they remained’. He said, ‘Did anyone stand after him-saww with the building that he-saww had built? ’ He said, ‘Yes, the offspring and the companions’. He said, ‘Did they build it or ruin it? ’ He said, ‘But they built it’. He said, ‘So, is it now built or ruined? ’ He said, ‘But, (it is) ruined’. He said, ‘Did his-saww offspring ruin it or his-saww community? ’ He said, ‘But, his-saww community did’. He said, ‘And are you from the offspring or from the community? ’ He said, ‘From the community’. He said,