Hadith 104

aid: ‘Here you are! ’ And he took a Dirham in his-asws hand and gave it to me (and said): ‘This is for the Muslims firstly, so be patient until our share from it comes to us, and we-asws shall gift a necklace to your daughter’. And Abdullah Bin Zam’ah asked him-asws for wealth. He-asws said: ‘This wealth is neither for me-asws nor for you, and rather it is war booty for the Muslims, and what their swords have pulled. So, if you have participated with them in their wars, there would be for you like their share, or else, the reaping of their hands cannot be for other mouths’. And Aasim Bin Meesam came to him-asws while he-asws was distributing wealth. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I am an old man, slow-moving’. He-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! It (the wealth) is not from the toil of my-asws hands, nor have I-asws inherited it from my-asws father-as, but it is an entrustment I-asws have been given’. Then he-asws said: ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy who assists an old slow-moving old man’’. [29]
(The books) ‘Tareekh Al Tabari’ and ‘Fazaail Amir Al-Momineen-asws, from Ibn Mardawayh, ‘When he-asws came back from Al-Yemen, he-asws hastened to the Prophet-saww, and he-asws appointed a man from his-asws companions as commander upon his-asws army. That man deliberated and clothed each man from the group a garment from the load which was with Ali-asws. When the army came closer, Ali-asws came out to receive them, and there were the garments upon them. He-asws said: ‘Woe be unto you! What is this? ’ He said, ‘I clothed them in order for them to be beautified with when they arrive to be among the people’. He-asws said: ‘Woe be unto you, from before you ended to Rasool-Allah-saww? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws snatched the garments away from the people and returned it in the load, and the army revealed complaints of what had been done with them’’. [30]
Then it is reported from Al-Khudri having said, ‘The people complained about Ali-asws, so Rasool-Allah-saww stood up to address. He-saww said: ‘O you people! Do not complain about Ali-asws, for by Allah-azwj, he-asws is rough regarding the Self of Allah-azwj’’. [31]
And I heard a discussion. Amro Bin Al-Aas had entered to see him-asws (regarding unofficial matters) at night while he-asws was in the public treasury. So, he-asws extinguished the lamp and sat in the illumination of the moon and did not consider permissible that he-asws be seated in the illumination (of the lamp) without rightfulness. And from a speech of his-asws regarding what he-asws had returned to the Muslims from the pieces of land cut out by Usman (for himself): ‘By Allah-azwj! If I-asws find out that he had married the women with it and owned the slave girls with it, I-asws would return it, for in the justice there is capacity, and the one the justice constrains upon him, then the tyranny would be even more constricting upon him’. And from a speech of his-asws when the people had wanted to pledge allegiances aft