Hadith 339

Nasr, from Salih Bin Sadaqah, by his chain who said, ‘When Jareer returned to Ali-asws, the talk of the people was a lot regarding the accusations to Jareer regarding the matter of Muawiya. So, Jareer and Al-Ashtar gathered in the presence of Ali-asws. Al-Ashtar said, ‘But, by Allah-azwj, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! If you-asws would have sent me to Muawiya, it would have been better for you-asws than this one who loosened from his noose and stayed with him until he did not leave any door of hope except he opened it, or one he feared its grief, except closed it’. Jareer said, ‘By Allah-azwj! If you had gone to them, they would have killed you, and they had frightened him with Amro and Zi Al-Kala’a, and Hawshab, and they have claimed that you are from the killers of Usman’. Al-Ashtar said, ‘If I had gone to him, by Allah-azwj, O Jareer, his answer would not have fatigued me, and carrying would not have been heavy upon me, and I would have carried Muawiya upon a scheme quicker regarding it than the thinking’. He said, ‘Go to them, then’. He said, ‘Now, and you have spoilt them, and the evil has already occurred between us? ’’[20]