Hadith 104

er the killing of Usman: ‘Leave me-asws and seek someone else, for we would be facing a matter having perspectives for it and variety. The hearts will not withstand to it nor will the intellects be affirmed upon it, and the afflictions have gathered like clouds, and the arguments have been repudiated. And know that I-asws would love to ride you all with I-asws am more knowing and I-asws will not listen to the words of any speaker and fault of any faulter’’. [32]
And in a report from Abu Al Haysam Bin Al Tayhan, and Abdullah Bin Abu Rafie, ‘Talha and Al Zubeyr came to Amir Al-Momineen-asws and said: ‘It isn’t like that how Umar used to give us’. He-asws said: ‘So, what was it that Rasool-Allah-saww used to give you two? ’ They were silent. He-asws said: ‘Wasn’t Rasool-Allah-saww distributing with the equal-ness between the Muslims? ’ They said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘So, is the Sunnah of Rasool-Allah-saww foremost with being followed in your view or the sunnah of Umar? ’
They said, ‘Sunnah of Rasool-Allah-saww, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! For us there is precedence and kinship’. He-asws said: ‘Is your precedence more preceding or my-asws precedence? ’ They said, ‘Your-asws precedence’. He-asws said: ‘So, both your kinships of my-asws kinship? ’ They said, ‘Your-asws kinship’. He-asws said: ‘So are your suffering more grievous than my-asws sufferings? ’ They said, ‘You-asws suffering’. He-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! I-asws and this employee of mine are not, except with one status’ – and he-asws gestured towards the employee’’. [33]
The book of Ibn Al Hashir, by his chain to Malik Bin Aws Bin Al Hadasan in a lengthy Hadeeth, ‘Sahl Bin Huneyf stood up and grabbed a hand of his slave and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I have freed this slave’. So, he gave him three Dinars like that he-asws had given Sahl Bin Huneyf. And one of his slaves asked him for wealth. He-asws said: ‘Bring out my-asws award and divide it’. He said, ‘It will not suffice’, and he went out to Muawiya, and he helped him. He wrote to Amir Al-Momineen-asws informing him-asws with what he had attained from the wealth. Amir Al-Momineen-asws wrote to him: ‘As for after, whatever from the wealth what is in your hand, there was someone rightful for it before you, and it will go to a rightful one from after you. For you rather is what you have arranged for yourself, for you preferred yourself over your needier children. You are rather amassing for one of the two men – either a man who worked regarding it in obedience of Allah-azwj, so he was fortunate with what you were wretched, or a man who worked regarding it in disobedience of Allah-azwj, so he was wretched with what you have gathered for him, and there isn’t anyone from these two with a right that you should prefer him upon yourself, nor necessitate for him upon your back. So, postpone it for the one who has gone to the Mercy of Allah-azwj, and trust it for the one who remains with the Grace of Allah-azwj’’. [34]