Hadith 382

ng. You will not find anything to deviate the people with, and incline their opinions with except if you say to them, ‘Your leader has been killed as unjust, so come, we shall seek his blood’. The lowly, riffraff, abject mob have answered to you, and we have known that you had delayed the help from him (Usman) and had loved for him to be killed for this status which you are seeking, and sometime there is a matter you seek and Allah-azwj Turns it to something else, and sometime you are given hope and you hope for it, and sometimes you are not given it, and by Allah-azwj there is no good for you in even one of these. By Allah-azwj! If you err in what you are desiring, you would be of evilest states of the Arabs, and if you are correct what you are hoping for, you will not attain it until you become deserving of arriving to the Fire. Fear Allah-azwj, O Muawiya! Leave what you are upon and do not dispute the command against its rightful one’. Muawiya praised Allah-azwj and Extolled upon Him-azwj and said, ‘As for after, surely the first of what you are known with is your foolishness and lightness of your forbearance. A chief of his people of noble descent has cut you to be upon this his-asws area, then afterwards you rebuked regarding what there is no knowledge for you with it, and you have lied and blamed. O you Bedouin, the villain, the rude in all what you described, leave from my presence, for there wouldn’t be anything between me and you all except the sword’, and he was angry. The group went out and Shabas was saying, ‘Is it upon us to dramatize with the sword? But, by Allah-azwj! We shall hasten it to you’’. Nasr (the narrator) said, ‘And readers of the people of Al-Iraq and readers of the people of Syria came out and they encamped in an area of Siffeen among thirty thousand, and the soldiers of Ali-asws were at the water and soldiers of Muawiya had paused at the water as well, and the readers walked in front of Ali-asws and Muawiya – from them were Ubeyda Al-Salmany, and Alqama Bin Qays Al-Nakhaie, and Abdullah Bin Utba, and Ammar Bin Abdul Qays. They entered unto Muawiya and said, ‘O Muawiya! What is that which you are seeking? ’ He said, ‘I seek the blood of Usman’. They said, ‘From who are you seeking the blood of Usman? ’ He said, ‘I seek it from Ali-asws’. They said, ‘Or did Ali-asws kill him? ’ He said, ‘Yes, he-asws is his killer, and has sheltered his killer’. They left from his presence and entered unto Ali-asws and said, ‘Muawiya claims that you-asws killed Usman’. He-asws said: ‘O Allah-azwj! He is lying upon me-asws! I-asws did not kill him’. They returned to Muawiya and informed him. He said, ‘If he-asws did not happen to have killed him by his-asws hands, so he-asws had instructed and dictated (it)’. They returned to him-asws and said, ‘He claims you-asws, if you-asws did not happen to have killed him by your-asws hands, so you-asws had instructed and dictated upon the killing of Usman’. He-asws said: ‘O Allah-azwj! He is lying in what he says’. They returned to Muawiya and said, ‘Ali-asws claims that he-asws did not do it’. Muawiya said, ‘If he-asws was truthful, then let him-asws guide us to the ones who killed Usman, for they are among his soldiers, and his-asws army, and his-asws companions, and his-asws supporters’. They returned to Ali-asws and said, ‘Muawiya is saying to you-asws, ‘If you-asws were truthful, then hand over to us the killers of Usman, or enable us from them’’. He-asws said to them: ‘The group had interpreted the Quran upon him, and the sectarianism occurred, and they killed him in his authority, and there isn’t any retaliation upon their strikes’. Muawiya disputed with Ali-asws. Muawiya said to them, ‘If the matter happened just as you are claiming, then why was the command cut off from us without there bein