Hadith 145

omineen-asws! Sent Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr to Egypt and remove Qays. By Allah-azwj! It has reached me that Qays is saying that the authority would not be complete except with the killing of Maslama Bin Makhlad for a worse authority. By Allah-azwj! I do not love for me any authority for Syria with the authority of Egypt and I (have to) kill Ibn Makhlad’. And Abdullah was a brother of Muhammad of his mother, and he loved for a government and authority to be for him, so Ali-asws employed Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr (to rule) upon Egypt due to his-asws love for him, and for the personal desire of Abdullah son of Ja’far-as, his brother, regarding him, and he-asws wrote a letter with him to the people of Egypt. He travelled until he arrived to it. Qays said to him, ‘What is the matter with Amir Al-Momineen-asws? What has changed him-asws? ’ He was angered and went out from it facing towards Al-Medina and did not go to Ali-asws at Al-Kufa. When he arrived at Al-Medina, Hasaan Bin Sabit came to him reviling him, and he was an Usman supporter. He said to him, ‘Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws removed you and you had killed Usman, so the sin remains upon you, and he-asws was not good to you with the gratefulness’. Qays rebuked him, ‘O blind of the heart! O blind of the sight! By Allah-azwj! If a war were to be cast between me and your group, I would strike off your neck’. Then he threw him out from his presence. Then Qays and Sahl Bin Huneyr both went out until they arrived to Ali-asws at Al-Kufa. Qays informed him-asws the news of what happened at Egypt. He (Sahl) ratified him, and he had attended with Ali-asws at Siffeen, he and Sahl Bin Huneyr. And Sahl was tall, tallest of the people and their most extensive in stature, and he was robust, short-haired, brave, experienced, advising to Ali-asws and to his-asws children, and he did not cease to be upon that until he died’. I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And the reports are brief from what I found in Kitab Al-Gharaat, and he said in it, ‘And Qay was an office bearer for Ali-asws upon Egypt. Muawiya went on to say, ‘Do not revile Qays for he is with us’. That reached Ali-asws, so he-asws removed him, and he came to Al-Medina and the people went on to say, ‘You deceived him-asws’, and they were saying to him, ‘You advised (badly) so he-asws removed you’. He joined with Ali-asws, and twelve thousand pledged upon the death, after what had afflicted Ali-asws, and Al-Hassan-asws reconciled with Muawiya. Qays said to them, ‘If you like, you can enter into what the people have entered into’. So, the ones with him pledged to him except for Khaysama Al-Zaby’’. [48]
And from Hisham Bin Urwa, from his father who said, ‘And Qays Bin Sa’ad Bin Ubada was with Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws (as a commander) upon his-asws vanguard, and with him were five thousand who had shaved their heads’’. [49]