Hadith 147

, and his-asws help, and his-asws consoling him-saww during every fear and terror, and your preferring Ali-asws, and your faulting me with the merits of others, not by your own merits. The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who Turned that away from you and Made it to be for others, for we had been, and your father was with us, in the era of our Prophet-saww Muhammad-saww, we viewed the right of Ali-asws as being necessary for us and his-asws precedence surpassing over us. When Allah-azwj Chose for His-azwj Prophet-saww what was with Him-azwj and Completed for him-saww what He-azwj had Promised him-saww, and Captured him (his-saww soul) to Him-azwj, your father and his Farouq (Umar) were the first ones to agree to blackmail him-asws of his-asws rights and oppose him-asws upon that. Then they called him-asws to themselves, but he-asws delayed to them both, so they thought with the (killing) him-asws and intended the grievous with him-asws. So, he-asws pledged allegiance and submitted to their commands, not participating in their affairs nor did they notify him-asws upon their secretive matters, until Allah-azwj Ordained from their affairs what He-azwj Ordained. Then their third-one stood after them both, being guided by their guidance and conducting with their conducts. You and your companions played with it until the remote ones from the people of disobedience coveted him (Usman), until you both reached your aims from it, and your father was cradling in his cradle (grave). So, if it happens that what we are upon is correct, then your father it is first one, and if happen to be tyranny, then your father conducted it and we are his participants and are being led by his guidance. Had your father not preceded to it, we would not have opposed Ali-asws and would have submitted to him-asws, and we have seen your father do that, so we took to the like of it, therefore fault your own father or leave it. And the greetings be upon the one who repents and is penitent’’. [70]
(The book) ‘Al Ikhtisas’ –
‘A Letter of Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr, may Allah-azwj be Pleased from him, to Muawiya – ‘From Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr to Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan. Greetings be upon the people of obedience of Allah-azwj, from the ones who are safe to the people of Wilayah of Allah-azwj. As for after, Allah-azwj Created creature by His-azwj Majesty, and His-azwj Magnificent, and His-azwj Authority, and His-azwj Power without any frivolity from him nor any weakness in strength, nor from any need with it to them. But He-azwj Created them as servant. He-azwj Made from them, strayers, and wretched, and fortunate, then He-azwj Chose them upon His-azwj Knowledge, so He-azwj Chose and Selected from them Muhammad-saww, and Selected him-asws and Chose him-saww for His-azwj Message, and Sent him-saww with His-azwj Revelation, and Entrusted him-saww upon His-azwj Command, and Sent him-saww as a messenger, ratifying and as a pointed. The first one to answer, and incline, and ratify, and believe, and be a Muslim, and submit, was his-saww brother-asws and son-asws of his-saww uncle-as, Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. He-asws ratified him-saww with the unseen, th