Hadith 198

uproot the spout! ’ The slave climbed up, uprooted it and threw it in the roof of Al-Abbas, and said, ‘By Allah-azwj! If anyone were to return it to its place, I will strike off his neck’. That was grievous upon Al Abbas and he called his sons Abdullah and Ubeydullah, and he got up walking leaning upon them, and he was shaking due to the severity of the illness, and he went until he entered to see Amir Al Momineen-asws. When Amir Al Momineen-asws looked at him, he-asws was disturbed to that and said: ‘O uncle! What have you come for and you are upon this state? ! ’
He related the story to him-asws and what Umar had done with him by uprooting the spout and his threatening the one who returns it to its place. And he said to him-asws, ‘O son-asws of my brother-as! There used to be two supporters for me I could look to them (for help. One of the two has passed away and he-saww is Rasool-Allah-saww, and there remains the other, and it is you-asws, O Ali-asws, and I do not think that I would be oppressed and it would be removed what Rasool-Allah-saww had ennobled me with while you-asws are for me, therefore look into my affair’. He-asws said to him: ‘O uncle! Return to your house, for you shall be seeing from me-asws what will cheer you, if Allah-azwj so Desires’. Then he-asws called out: ‘O Qanbar! To me-asws, with Zulfiqar (the sword)! ’ He-asws collared it, then went out to the Masjid, and the people were around him-asws, and he-asws said: ‘O Qanbar! Climb and return the spout to its place! ’ Qanbar ascended and returned it to its place, and Ali-asws said: ‘By the right of the occupant of this grave and the pulpit! If an uprooted were to uproot it, I-asws will strike off his neck, as well as the neck of the one who had instructed him with that and crucify them both in the (hot) sun until they are set on fire! ’
That reached Umar Bin Al-Khattab. He got up and entered the Masjid and looked at the spout. He said, ‘No one should anger Abu Al-Hassan-asws regarding what he-asws has done, and we shall expiate from the vow’. When it was the next morning, Amir Al-Momineen-asws went to his-asws uncle Al Abbas and said to him: ‘How is your morning, O uncle? ’ He said, ‘With the best of blessing what could be lasting for me, O son-asws of my brother-as’. He-asws said to him: ‘O uncle! Make yourself to feel good and delight your eyes, for by Allah-azwj, even if (all) the people of the earth were to dispute me-asws regarding the spout, I-asws would contend them, then kill them by the Might of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Strength, and no injustice will come to you, O uncle! ’
Al-Abbas stood up and kissed what is between his-asws eyes and said: ‘O son-asws of my brother-as! He will not be disappointed, one whose helper you-asws are’’. And he-saww had said in another place, as a bequest from him-saww regarding his-saww uncle Al-Abbas: ‘My-saww uncle Al-Abbas is a remainder of the fathers and the grandfathers, so preserve me-saww regarding him, everything regarding my-saww protection, and I-saww am in the protection of my-saww uncle Al-Abbas. The one hurts him so he has hurt me-asws, and one who is inimical to him so he has been inimical to me-saww. His peace is my-saww peace and his war is my-saww war’’. And from it is that the Prophet-saww, before the emigration, had gone out one day to outside Makkah and returned demanding his-saww house. He-saww passed by a caller from the clan of Tameem calling out, and there was a chief for them called Abdullah Bin Juz’an, and he used to be counted from the chiefs of Quraysh and their elders, and there was a caller for him calling out in the caves of Makkah and its valleys, ‘One who wants the hospitality and the accommodation, so let him come to the meal of Abdullah Bin Juz’an! ’
And his caller was abu Qohafa, and his wages was four coins, and for him was another caller above the roof of his house. Abdullah Bin Juz’an was informed of the passing of the Prophet-saww by his door, so he came out sprinting until he caught up with him-saww and said, ‘O Muhammad-saww! By the Sacred House, if only you-saww would ennoble me by your-saww entry into my house and you-saww partake from my provisio