Hadith 117

ll get you married’. They said to him-asws, ‘There is no need for us regarding the marriage, for there is no match for us except your-asws sons-asws. So, if you-asws were to marry us to them-asws, we shall agree’. He-asws disliked preferring his-asws children with what the Muslims had not been generalised with. And there was sent to him from Al-Basra, from the depth of the ocean, such a gift, its value was not known. His-asws daughter Umm Kulsoom-as said to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Can I-as beautify with it and it would be in my-as neck? ’ He-asws said to her-as: ‘O Abu Rafie! Put it in the public treasury. There is no way to that until there does not remain any woman from the Muslims, except and for her would be similar to what would be for you-as’. And he-asws stood preaching at Al-Medina when he-asws ruled. He-asws said: ‘O community of Emigrants and the Helpers! O community of Quraysh! Know, by Allah-azwj that I-asws did not take anything from your war booty for me as long as I-asws stayed at Yasrib, so do you see me-asws preventing myself-asws and my-asws children and give you all, and not equalised between the black and the red! ’
Aqeel son of Abu Talib-asws said, ‘Are you-asws making me and the black man from Sudan in Al-Medina to be one (and the same)? ’ He-asws said to him: ‘Be seated, may Allah-azwj the Exalted have Mercy on you! Or is there no one speaking over her apart from you? And what is your merit over him except due to precedence or piety? ’
Then the clothing prepared by Ziyad Bin Shaddad Al-Harisy, companion of Rasool-Allah-saww, to his brother Abdullah Bin Shaddad. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! My brother has gone in the worship and he refuses to live in my house, and he wears the lowest (quality) clothes what can be from the clothing’. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I have adorned with your-asws adornment and have worn your-asws (kind of) clothing’. He-asws said: ‘That is not for you. The leader of the Muslims, when he is in charge of their affairs, should wear the lowest clothing of their poor ones, lest the poor one is corrupted by his poverty, so it kills him. So, know! Do not wear except from the best garb of your people. And as for the Favour of your Lord, so do announce (it) [93: 11]. The deed with the Favour is more beloved than the announcing with it’. Then the distribution with the fairness and the justice among the citizens – He-asws made Ammar Bin Yasser-ra and Abu Al-Haysam Al-Tayhan in charge of the public treasury and prescribed that the Arab, and the Persian, and the Helpers, and the non-Arab, and every one in from the Arab tribes, and types of non-Arabs are all equal. Sahl Bin Huneyf came to him-asws with a black slave of his. How much did you give this one? ’ Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘How much did you take? ’ He said, ‘Three Dinars, and like that the people have taken’. He-asws gave his slave similar to what he had taken – three Dinars. When the people realised that there is no preference for one of them over the other except by piety in the Presence of Allah-azwj, Talha and Al-Zubeyr came to Ammar Bin Yaser-ra and Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayham and they said, ‘O Abu Al-Yaqzan! Seek permission for us to your companion (Ali-asws)’. He said, ‘And Ali-asws is my companion.