Hadith 185

i-asws withdrew his-asws hand. I and Abu Bakr stood up turning back, and I was saying, ‘May Allah-azwj Recompense Ali-asws goodly for he-asws did not refuse the allegiance when present at the grave of Rasool-Allah-saww’. From besides the group, Abu Zarr Jundab Bin Junada-ra leapt up, and he-ra shouted, ‘By Allah-azwj, O enemy of Allah-azwj! Ali-asws did not pledge allegiance to Ateeq (Abu Bakr)! ’, and we did not cease, every time we met a group or a group faced us, we were informing them of him-asws having pledged allegiance, and Abu Zarr-ra had belied us. By Allah-azwj! He did not pledge allegiance, neither to Abu Bakr nor during my caliphate, nor will he-asws be pledging allegiance after me, nor did anyone from his-asws twelve companions, neither to Abu Bakr nor to me. So, who can do my deed, O Muawiya, and give preference to the grudges of the ancestors, apart from me? ! And as for you, and your father Abu Sufyan, and your brother Utba, so I do recognise what had happened from you all in belying of Muhammad-saww and plotting against him-saww, and management of the households of Makkah, and your seeking him-saww in the mountain in order to kill him-saww, and gathering the allies and collecting them together against him-saww, and your father riding the camel, and he had guided the allies. And the words of Muhammad-saww: ‘May Allah-azwj Curse the rider, and the guide, and the usher! ’, and your father was the rider, and your brother Utba was the guide, and you (Muawiya) were the usher, and your mother Hinda was not comforted and she had spent upon the savage what she spent until she was enabled to Hamza-asws who was called the lion of the Beneficent in His-azwj earth, and he stabbed him-as with the bayonet, and split open his-as chest and cut from it and took the liver and carried it to your mother. And Muhammad-saww claimed due to his-saww sorcery that when she inserted it in her mouth, it became like a stone and stuck in her mouth, and Muhammad-saww named her as ‘Liver eater’, and her words in her poem to begin (fighting) Muhammad-saww and his-saww fighters, ‘We are the daughters of the night, we walk upon the cushions, like the jewel in the necklace, and the musk in the crown. If they accept, we shall hug, or they turn around, we shall separate, a separation without love’. And her womenfolk were in bright yellow clothes, showing their faces and their wrists and their head, urging upon the killing of Muhammad-saww. You all did not become Muslims willingly, but rather you became Muslims unwillingly on the day of the conquest of Makkah. You were made to be ‘freed ones’, and my brother Zayd and Aqeel were both made to be brothers of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and Al-Abbas was like them. And there was (something) from your father regarding himself, so he said, ‘By Allah-azwj, O Ibn Kabasha (Muhammad-