Hadith 54

puting people [43: 58]. And the Majestic is His-azwj Praise Said: and to warn by it a contentious people [19: 97]’’. [45]
And Al Mubrad said, ‘The first one to judge was Urwah Bin Udayya, and it is said he was a man from the clan of Muharib called Saeed, and they did not differ in their gathering against Abdullah Bin Wahab Al-Rasy, and he had abstained from them and had indicated to someone else, but they did not agree except with him. Thus, he was a leader of the people. And the first sword to be drawn from the swords of the Kharijites was the sword of Urwah Bin Udayya, and that is he came to Al-Ash’as and said to him, ‘What is this lowliness, O Sha’ad and what is this arbitration? Is it a stipulated condition more binding than a Condition of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic? ’
Then he bared the sword to him, and Al-Ash’as had turned around. He struck with it crippling his mule, and Urwah, this one is from those who were saved from the war of Al-Nahrawan. He did not cease to remain for a period during the days of Muawiya until Zaiyad came with him (as a captive), and with him was a slave of his. He asked him about Abu Bakr and Umar. He said, ‘Good’. He asked him about Usman and Abu Turab-asws. (He said), ‘Usman had ruled for six years from his caliphate, then they had testified upon him with the Kufr, and similar to that was done regarding the matter of Ali-asws, until he-asws judged. Then he testified upon him-asws with the Kufr. Then he asked him about Muawiya. He reviled him with ugly reviling. Then he asked him about himself. He said to him, ‘The beginning of you is adultery, and your end is an invitation, and after, you are disobedient to your Lord-azwj’. Zayd ordered with him, and his neck was struck off. Then he called his slave. He said to him, ‘Describe his affairs to me’. He said, ‘Shall I elaborate or be brief? ’ He said, ‘But, be brief’. He said, ‘I did not come to him with food by the day at all, nor prepared his bed for him at night at all (I. e. , he was always Fasting by the day and praying Salat at night)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And the reason for their being named as Al-Harouriya is that when Ali-asws debated them after the debating of Ibn Abbas with them, among what he-asws said to them was: ‘Don’t you know that they are the people, when they raised the Qurans, I-asws had said to you all that this is a plot and a weakness, and had their purpose was a judgment of the Quran, they would have come to me-asws and asked me-asws for the arbitration? Do you know of anyone who had more dislike to the arbitration than me-asws? ’ They said, ‘You-asws speak the truth’. He-asws said: ‘Do you know that you all had coerced me-asws upon that to the extent that I-asws had to answer to it? And it was stipulated that both their judgments would be implemented for as long as they both judged with a Judgment of Allah-azwj. So, when they opposed it, then I-asws and you-asws were free from that, and you know that no Judgment of Allah-azwj has been transgressed by me-asws’. They said, ‘O Allah-azwj! Yes’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And among them during that time was Ibn Al-Kawa. And this is from before they had slaughtered Abdullah Bin Khabab, and