Hadith 173

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Al Mufeed, from the scribe, from Al Zafrany, from Al Saqafi, from Abu Al Waleed Al Zaby, from Abu Bakr Al Huzly who said, ‘Al-Haris Bon Howt Al-Laysi entered to see Amir Al-Momineen-asws Ali Bin Abu Talib-asws. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I do not see Talha, and Al-Zubeyr, and Ayesha to have sacrificed except upon truth’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to him: ‘O Har (Haris)! You looked under you and did not look above you, you panicked from the truth. The truth and the falsehood cannot be recognised by the people, but the truth is recognised by following the one who follows it, and the falsehood, by shunning the one who shuns him’. He said, ‘So why shouldn’t I become a follower of Abdullah Bin Umar, and Sa’ad Bin Malik’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Abdullah Bin Umar and Sa’ad both forsook the truth and did not help the falsehood; when they were both leaders in the good, so they were followed’’. [51]