Hadith 185

atima-asws, and their-asws two son-asws Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, and their-asws two daughters-asws Zainab-asws and Umm Kulsoom-asws, and the maid called Fizza-ra, and with me were Khalid Bin Al-Waleed, and Qunfuz a slave of Abu Bakr, and the ones accompanied from our special ones. I knocked the door onto them-asws with a severe knocking, and the maid answered me. I said to her-ra, ‘Tell Ali-asws, ‘Leave the falsities and do not incline yourself-asws to cover the caliphate for the command isn’t for you-asws. The command is for the one whom the Muslims choose and they unite upon. By the Lord-azwj of Al-Laat and Al-Uzza, and the opinion is for Abu Bakr to fail from reaching to what the caliphate of Ibn Abu Kabasha had reached to. But I am beginning my page to it and my sight has appeared to it’. And I said to the two living ones – Nizar and Qahtan – after I had said to them, ‘The caliphate isn’t to be except among Quraysh, so obey them for as long as they obey Allah-azwj’, and rather I said that due to what had preceded from the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws from his-asws pouncing and his-asws provocation with the blood which he-asws had spilt during the military expeditions of Muhammad-saww and fulfilling his-saww debts – and these were eighty thousand Dirhams, and fulfilling his-saww promises, and collecting the Quran, and he-asws fulfilled these upon his-asws earnings and his-asws obtainment. And the words of the Emigrants and the Helpers, when I said that the Imamate is to be among Quraysh, they said, ‘He-asws is the short-haired, the one full of knowledge, Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. Rasool-Allah-saww had taken the allegiance for him-asws upon the people his-saww nation, and we had greeted to him-asws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’ in four places. So, if you were to be naming with it – community of Quraysh – so do not forget it, and neither is the allegiance, nor the Imamate and the caliphate and the successor-ship, except an Obligated right, and a correct matter. Do not pretend nor claim it, for we shall belied them-asws, and establish forty men as witnesses upon Muhammad-saww that the Imamate is supposed to be with the choice (of the people). During that, the Helpers said, ‘We are more rightful than Quraysh, because we assisted and helped and the people emigrated to us. So, when the one who has the command for him were to hand it over, then this command wouldn’t be for you besides us’. And the people said, ‘There should be a ruler from us and a ruler from you’. We said to them, ‘Forty men have testified that the imams would be from Quraysh’. A group accepted, and others denied and disputed. I said, – and the gathering were listening, ‘Indeed, it should be the eldest in years, and most lenient of us’. They said, ‘Who are you talking about? ’ I said, ‘Abu Bakr, the one whom Rasool-A