Hadith 331

you said, ‘Upon me with him-asws is the Hereafter without a world, and in the Hereafter is instead from the world, and Muawiya, with him is the world without Hereafter, and there isn’t instead in the world from the Hereafter’. So, you are paused between the two’. Amro said, ‘By Allah-azwj! Surely you are no mixed-up, so what is your view, O Wardan? ’ He said, ‘I view that you should stay in your house, so if the people of the religion prevail, you will live in the pardon of their religion, and if the people of the world prevail, they will not be needless from you’. He said, ‘Now, due to what the Arabs have testified, my journey is to Muawiya’. So, he departed and travelled until he arrived to Muawiya, and made Muawiya know that. He distanced him and each one of the two plotted with his friend. When he entered to see him, he said, ‘Abu Abdullah! We left you during this night due to three news there is neither any report regarding it nor occurrence’. Amro said, ‘And what is that? ’
He said, ‘That is that Muhammad Bin Abu Huzeyfa, he and his companions have broken out of a prison of Egypt, and he is from the pests of this religion, and from it is that Caesar is marching with a community of Romans to me in order to overcome upon Syria, and from it is that Ali-asws has descended at Al-Kufa, preparing for the travelling to us’. Amro said, ‘All of what you have mentioned isn’t grievous. As for the matter of Ibn Abu Huzeyfa, so you should not be aggrieved from a man who has come out among his like. You send out a cavalry to him until you kill him, or they come to you with him, and if he fights you, it would not harm you. And as for Caesar, so gift to him from the Roman slave and their like, and utensils of gold and silver, and ask him for the days of calm, for he would be quick to it. And as for Ali-asws, so no by Allah-azwj, O Muawiya, no one can equate between you and him-asws in anything from the things, and for him-asws regarding the warfare, there is an observation what isn’t for anyone from Quraysh, and he-asws is a master of whatever he-asws is in, except if you were to oppress him-asws’. [12]