Hadith 35

im Al-Taie, and he was a heavily-bodied man, tall, a scholar, understanding, eloquent of tongue, a speaker. He never tired of his tongue nor could he be faulted from the answer. He turbaned with his turban and called for a camel of his, old, solid, super, red. He evened out his luggage and diverted it to Damascus. He-asws said to him: ‘O Tirmah! Go with this letter of mine to Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan and take the answer’. Al-Tirmah took the letter and rounded his turban and rode his ride and went with it until he entered Damascus. He asked about the government building. When he arrived to the door, the guards said to him, ‘Who are you seeking? ’ He said, ‘I want the companions of the ruler first, then the ruler secondly’. They said to him, ‘Whom do you want from them? ’ He said, ‘I want Ja’sam, and Jarwal, and Mujashie, and Baqie’, and he had wanted Abu Al-Awr Al-Sulamy, and Abu Hureyra Al-Dowsy, and Amro Bin Al-Aas, and Marwan Bin Al-Hakam. They said, ‘They are at the green door picnicking in the orchard’. He went and travelled until he overlooked upon that place, and there was a group by its door. They said, ‘A Bedouin has come to us, illiterate, looking at the sky. Come, we shall mock him’. When he paused at them, they said, ‘O Bedouin! Is there any news with you from the sky? ’ He said, ‘Yes, Allah-azwj the Exalted is in the sky, and the Angel of death is in the air, and Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws is in the sandy plains, so be prepared for what calamity will befall upon you all, of people of chaos and misery’. They said, ‘Where are you coming from? ’ He said, ‘From the presence of a free, clean, pure, Momin, pleasing, pleased’. They said, ‘And which thing do you want? ’ He said, ‘I want this wicked cuckold, the hypocrite, the vile whom you are claiming he is your commander, so know that I am a messenger of Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws, to Muawiya’. They said, ‘He is busy at this time’. He said, ‘With what is that, a promise or threat? ’ They said, ‘No, but he is consulting his companions in what he would be facing tomorrow’. He said, ‘Damnation be for him and remoteness’. They wrote to Muawiya with his news, ‘As for after, a man has arrived from the presence of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, a Bedouin. He is eloquent of tongue, free, sharp. He speaks and does not get tired, and he prolongs, so you will not tire him. So, prepare an answer to his talk, decisive, and do not become heedless from him, nor inattentive. And the greetings’. When Al-Tirmah came to know with that, he knelt his ride and descended from it, and tied it and sat with the group, the ones who were discussing. When the news came to Muawiya, he instructed his son-la Yazeed-la to go out and set up a row of chairs at the door of his house. Yazeed-la went out, and upon his-la face was the impact of a strike. Whenever he-la spoke, he-la was of a loud voice. He ordered for the row of chairs to be set up. They did t