Hadith 18

Manaf, there isn’t any merit for some of us over the others, by my-asws life! We are the sons of one father, but Umayya is not like Hashim-asws, nor is Harb like Abdul Muttalib-asws, nor is Abu Sufyan like Abu Talib-asws, nor are the Emigrants like the freed ones (at the conquest of Makkah), nor is the pure like the mixed, nor is the right like the false, nor is the devout like the corrupt, and evil is the replacement, a replacement pursuing ancestor, collapsing in the Fire of Hell. And in our hand after (all that) is the merit of the Prophet-hood with which we humiliated the mighty and made the humble to live by it. And when Allah-azwj Caused the Arabs to enter into His-azwj Religion in droves, and this community submitted to it willingly and unwillingly, you were from the ones who had entered into the religion, either out of desired or fear when the people of precedence were successful with their precedence, and the first Emigrants were gone with their merits. So, do not make a share in you for the Satan-la nor a way upon yourself. And the greetings’’. [78]
And he said in another place, ‘It is narrated by Nasr Bin Muzahim in Kitab Siffeen, from Umar Bin Sa’ad, from Abu Waraq who said, ‘Abu Muslim Al-Khawlani came among some people from the readers of the people of Syria, to Muawiya, before the travelling of Amir Al-Momineen-asws to Siffeen. They said to him, ‘O Muawiya! Upon what are you fighting against Ali-asws, and there isn’t for you like his-asws accompaniment (of the Prophet-saww), nor like his-asws emigration, nor his-asws kinship, nor his-asws precedence? ’
He said, ‘I am not claiming that there is for me in like his-asws accompaniment, nor like his-asws emigration, nor his-asws kinship, but inform me from you all, don’t you know that Usman was killed oppressed? ’ They said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Then let him-asws hand over to us his killers so we can kill them due to it, and there will be no fighting between us and him-asws’. They said, ‘Then write a letter to him, one of us will go to him-asws with it’. Muawiya wrote (a letter sending it with) Abu Muslim Al-Khawlani, ‘From Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan to Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. Greeting be unto you-asws! I praise Allah-azwj to you-asws, Who, there is no god except He-azwj. As for after, surely Allah-azwj Chose Muhammad-saww with His-azwj Knowledge and Made him-saww the trustee upon His-azwj Revelation, and the Rasool-saww upon His-azwj creatures, and Selected for him-asws supporters from the Muslims. Allah-azwj aided by them and they became in their status in His-azwj Presence, in accordance to their merits in. The most superior of them in and the most advising of them to Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww was the caliph (Abu Bakr) from after him-saww. Then the caliph (Umar) of his-saww caliph from after his caliphate. Then the third caliph, the oppressed Usman. All of them were envied by you-asws and you-asws rebelled against all of them. We recognised that in your-asws distrustful looks, and your-asws obscene words, the deep sighs in your-asws breaths, and your-asws staying back from