Hadith 138

(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘And from a letter of his-asws to Ziyad Bin Abih, and it had reached him-asws that Muawiya had written to him intending to deceive him with his annexation: ‘And I-asws have come to know that Muawiya has written to you to reduce your understanding and blunt your sharpness. Be cautious of him, for he is the Satan-la who comes to the people from his front, and from behind him, and from his right and from his left, in order to storm him unawares, and take away his zeal. And it had happened from Abu Sufyan during the time of Umar Bin Al-Khattab, a slip from the self-discussion, and an evil suggestion from the evil suggestions of the Satan-la. Neither was any lineage established by it nor any inheritance was deserved by it, and the one attaching with it was like the uninvited guest pushed away, and the dangling cup’. When Ziyad read his-asws letter, he said, ‘He-asws has testified with it, by Lord-azwj of the Kabah! ’ And it did not cease to be in his mind until Muawiya claimed him (as his son)’’. [37]
And it is reported from Ibn Abdul Birr and Al Balazuri, and al Waqidy, from Ibn Abbas and others, ‘Umar sent Ziyad to reconcile a mischief having occurred at Al-Yemen. When he returned, he addressed in the presence of Umar a sermon, the like of it had not been heart, and Abu Sufyan, and Ali-asws, and Amro Bin Al-Aas were present. Amro said, ‘Allah-azwj, the father of this boy! If he had been from Quraysh, he would have ushered the Arabs with his stick’. Abu Sufyan said, ‘He is of Quraysh, and I know the one who placed him in the womb of his mother’. Ali-asws said: ‘And who is he? ’ He said, ‘I’. He-asws said: ‘Shh, no, O Abu Sufyan’. Abu Sufyan said (in prose), ‘But, by Allah-azwj, had I not feared, O Ali-asws, that a person from the enemies might see me, I would reveal his matter, Sakhar Bin Harb and would not hide the words regarding Ziyad, and my courtesy is prolonged upon (the clan of) Saqeef, and my leaving regarding them is a fruit of the heart’. And in another report, he said, ‘I came to his mother during the pre-Islamic period adulterously’. Ali-asws said: Shh, O Abu Sufyan, for Umar is quick to the evil’. He said, ‘And Ziyad recognised what had flowed between the two. It was within himself’. And in another report, ‘Amro Bin Al-Aas said to him, ‘So, you don’t deserve him’. He said, ‘I am fearing this the shaming by this seated one (Umar) that he would break my honour upon me’’. [38]
He said, ‘And it is reported by Al Madainy, ‘When it was the era of Ali-asws, he-asws placed Ziyad in charge of (a piece of land) of Persia, or some of the administration of Persian, and he hand