Hadith 21

ess us-asws of our-asws rights, and pounce upon our-asws necks, and load the people upon us-asws, and prevent us of our-asws share from the war booty and prevented our-asws mother-asws of what Rasool-Allah-saww had made it to be for her-asws. And I-asws swear by Allah-azwj! If the people had pledged allegiance to my-asws father-asws when Rasool-Allah-saww had separated from them, the sky would have given them its drops, and the earth, its Blessings, and I-asws have not coveted it, O Muawiya! When it (command) came out from its mine, Quraysh disputed for it between them. The freed ones (at conquest of Makkah) coveted it, and so did the freed ones, you and your companions. And Rasool-Allah-saww had said: ‘The affairs of a community will not be ruled by a man while among them there is one who is more learned than, except their affairs will not cease to go lower until they return to what they had left’. The children of Israel had neglected Haroun-as, and they were knowing that he-asws is a caliph of Musa-as among them, and they followed Al-Samiri-la; and this community neglected my-asws father-asws and pledged to someone else, and they had heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘You (Ali-asws) are from me-saww at the status of Haroun-as from Musa-as, except for the Prophet-hood’. And they had seen Rasool-Allah-saww nominate my-asws father-asws on the day of Ghadeer Khumm and ordered them that the ones present from them should deliver it to the absentees. And Rasool-Allah-saww had fled from his-saww people, and he-saww was calling them to Allah-azwj the Exalted, until he-saww entered the cave, and had he-saww found supporters, he-saww would not have fled. And my-asws father-asws had restrained his-asws hand when he-asws adjured them and cried for help, but he-asws was not helped. Allah-azwj had Made Haroun-as to be in leeway when they weakened him-as and almost killed him-as, and Allah-azwj Made the Prophet-saww to be in leeway when he-saww entered the cave, and he-saww could not find supporters, and similar to that, my‑asws father-asws and I-asws are in leeway when the community abandoned us-asws and they pledged allegiance to you, O Muawiya! And rather, it is the Sunnahs (ways) and the parables, following each other. O you people! If you were to seek in what is between the east and the west to find any man the Prophet-saww had begotten, apart from me-asws and my-asws brother-asws, you will not be able to find. And I-asws pledged to this one, And I know, perhaps it is a Fitna for you and a provision up to a time’ [21: 111]’’. [44]