Hadith 99

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed – Muhammad Bin Dawood Al Hatmy, from Abdullah Bin Suleyman Bin Al Ashas, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abdullah Abdaan, from Ibrahim Al Khowli, from Saeed Bin Dawood Bin Al Zubeur, from Malik Bin Anas, from Abu Sahl Bin Malik, from his father who said, ‘I was standing with Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba during the rise of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws from Al-Medina to Al-Basra, when Ammar Bin Yasser came. He said to him, ‘Is there for you (to fight) for the Sake of Allah-azwj, O Mugheira? ’ He said, ‘And where is it (the Sake of Allah-azwj), O Ammar? ’
He said, ‘You should enter into this call and joined up with the ones who preceded you, and you shall prevail over the ones behind you’. Al-Mugheira said to him, ‘Or better than that, O Abu Yaqzan! ’ Ammar said, ‘And what is it? ’ He said, ‘We should enter into our house and lock the doors upon us until the matter is clear to us, and we become insightful, and we should not become breakers of the chains, so we flee from the shallow (waters) and fall into the deep’. Ammar said to him, ‘Far be it! Far be it! Are you ignorant after knowledge, and blind after insight? But listen to my words. By Allah-azwj! You will not see me except in the first pioneers’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws emerged to them. He-asws said: ‘O Abu Al-Yaqzan! What is the one-eye saying to you, for by Allah-azwj, he is constantly clothing the truth with the falsehood and camouflaging in it, and he will have no concern from the Religion except with what is in accordance with the world. Woe be unto you, O Mugheira! Surely, the call will usher the ones who enter into it, to the Paradise’. Al-Mugheira said to him, ‘You-asws speak the truth, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! If I do not happen to be with you-asws, I will never happen to be against you-asws’’. [113]