Hadith 130

one, there would not have been any clemency for them-asws with me-asws nor any success from me-asws until I-asws would have taken it back from them-asws and removed the falsehood from their-asws injustices. And I-asws swear by Allah-azwj, Lord-azwj of the worlds! It would not make me-asws happy if I-asws were to take it from their wealth as being permissible for me-asws and leave it as an inheritance for the ones after me-asws. Have a little shame! It is as if you have reached the limit (of your life), and have already been buried under the soil, and your deeds are being presented to you at the place which the unjust one would be calling out in with the regret and he who wasted would wish for the return during it: so they called out for escape when it was too late? [38: 3]’’. [27]
And it has been reported by the reporters of these words, ‘Abdullah Bin Abbas wrote an answer to Ali-asws of this letter. They said, ‘And his answer was, ‘As for after, your-asws letter has come to me magnifying upon me what I had attained from the public treasury of Al-Basra, and by my life, my right in the public treasury is more than what I have taken. And the greetings’. They said, ‘Ali-asws wrote to him: ‘As for after, surely from the wonders is that your soul is adorning for you that there is a right for you in the public treasury more than what is for a man from the Muslims, so you have succeeded. If your false wishes and your claiming what cannot save you from the sins, and permits for you the prohibited, then you are the guided, the fortunate. And it has reached me-asws that you had taken Makkah as a homeland and have struck watering places at is, buying women of Makkah, and Al-Medina, and Al-Taif, choosing them to be upon your spies, and giving them wealth of others. Return, may Allah-azwj Guide you to your rightful guidance, and repent to Allah-azwj, your Lord-azwj and bring out to the Muslims their wealth, for after a little while you will separate from the one you love and you will leave whatever you have amassed, and you will disappear into a crack of the earth, neither cushioned nor paved. You would separate from the loved ones and settle in the soil, and facing the Reckoning, needless from what you had left behind to what you have sent ahead. And the greetings’. They said, ‘Abdullah Bin Al-Abbas wrote to him, ‘As for after, you-asws have frequented upon me, and by Allah-azwj, if I were to meet Allah-azwj having encompassed upon the treasures of the earth, all of them, from its gold and its minerals, and its silver, it would be more beloved to me than if I were to meet Him-azwj with the blood of a Muslim person (like you-asws will). And the greetings’’. [28]