Hadith 327

s-asws matter and the matter of Talha and Al-Zubeyr what has reached you, and Ali-asws is the dependable one upon what has been hidden from us and you, of that matter’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When he went to his house, he called his companions and said, ‘The letter of Ali-asws has scared me and he-asws will be taking the wealth of Azerbaijan, and I shall join up with Muawiya’. The group said, ‘The death is better for you than that! Will you leave your city and the community of your people and become a sin for the people of Syria? ’ So, Al-Ash’as was embarrassed and travelled until he arrived to Ali-asws. He (the narrator) said, ‘He arrived to Ali-asws before the arrival at Al-Kufa of Al-Ahnaf Bin Qays, and Jariyat Bin Qudama, and Haris Bin Zayd, and Zayd Bin Jabala, and Ays Bin Zubya, and the important people of the clan of Tameem, and among them were nobles, and they did not come to any clan from the people of Al-Kufa. Al-Ahnaf Bin Qays, and Jariyat Bin Qudama, and Harisa Bin Badr stood up. Al-Ahnaf spoke, he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Even though the clan of Sa’ad did not help you-asws on the day of the camel, they did not help against you either, and they were more wondrous yesterday than the ones who helped you, and they are more wondrous today than the ones who abandon you-asws, because they had doubted regarding Talha and Al-Zubeyr and are not doubting regarding Muawiya and our clan in Al-Basra. If you-asws send us to them and they arrive to us, we shall fight the enemies with them and be fair with them, and they would come across today what they had missed out on yesterday’. Ali-asws said to Al-Jariyat Bin Qudama, and he was a man from (clan of) Tameem: ‘Af Al-Ahnaf, what are you saying, O Jariyat! ’ He responded with what evidenced upon his dislike from the finger-pointing at his people about Al-Basra. Then Ali-asws addressed Harisa, and he was co-incidental with Al-Ahnaf in his view. Ali-asws said to Al-Ahnaf, ‘Write to your people’. He wrote to them, urging them upon the coming out and the travelling to him-asws. And Muawiya Bin Sa’sah wrote, and he was a son of a brother of Al-Ash’as, some couplets to them. When the letter of Al-Ahnaf and poem of Muawiya ended up to the clan of Sa’ad, they travelled with their community until they descended at Al-Kufa. There was alarm at Al-Kufa, and there were a lot (of people). Then Rabie arrive to them, and there is a Hadeeth for them’’. [8]