Hadith 205

he was of great follower of apparent inauspiciousness between the annoyances, and your father was not in it (caliphate) except milking of a sheep until you became what you were ordering, and not desisting, nor rising nor descending, and your example isn’t except like an example of Al-Hazramy Bin Najmaan, brother of the clan of Asad when he said (a poem), ‘Has gifting of the poems between us declined? Insulting the friend and frequent nicknaming, until you leave them, it is as if their hearts in every group is a buzz of flies’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I saw her tears and her lamentation manifested, and her whimpering. Then she said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I shall go out away from you all, for there isn’t any city in the earth more hateful to me than a city you happen to be in it’. Ibn Abbas said, ‘But why? By Allah-azwj! That is not due to our afflictions with you nor due to our dealings with you. We have made you a mother to the Momineen, and you are a daughter of Umm Rowman, and we made your father as a truthful, and he is a son of Abu Qohafa, carrying a bowl of fat to Ibn Juz’an to hosting him’. She said, ‘O Ibn Abbas! Are you conferring upon me with Rasool-Allah-saww? ’ He said, ‘And why should I not confer upon you with a conferment? If there was a clipping from you from it (restraint), we would be grateful with it, and we are his-saww flesh and his-saww blood, and from him-saww and to him-saww, and you are nothing except his-saww one mattress from nine mattresses he-saww left behind after him-saww. You are neither fairest of them in colour, nor most beautiful of them in face, nor more aromatic of sweat, nor freshest of them as leaves, nor praise-worthy of them of origin. You became ordering and calling (people), and you were answered, and there is not example for you except as the brother of clan of Fihr had said (in a poem), ‘You conferred upon my people and they manifest the enmity, so I said to them, ‘Restrain the enmity and be grateful’, and in it is satisfaction from the likes of you to a friend, and argue with you if you unite the rebels and the Kafirs’. Ibn Abbas said, ‘Then I got up and came to Amir Al-Momineen-asws and informed him-asws of her words, and what she had responded with. He-asws said: ‘I-asws was more knowing with you when I-asws sent you’’. [84]