Hadith 167

e-asws and shed my-asws blood by your hands, or else Allah-azwj will Make me-asws to be victorious over you and your companion’. Al-Zubayr returned to his companion, and he was weeping’. Then he-asws turn towards Talha, and he-asws said: ‘Have you both brought your wives with you? ’ He said, ‘No’. He-asws said: ‘You have deliberately brought one woman to me-asws whose place, in the Book of Allah-azwj, is to stay at her home. You two have brought her and kept your own wives in the tents and the houses? You two have not done justice to the Rasool-Allah-saww from yourselves when you have made both your wives to sit in the houses, and brought out the wife of the Rasool-Allah-saww, and Allah-azwj has Ordered that you will not talk to them except from behind a veil? (And) Inform me-asws about the Salat led by Abdullah Bin Al-Zubayr which two of you, did not agree on? Inform me about the two of you calling the Bedouins to fight against me-asws, what made you to do that? ’ Talha said, ‘O this, there were six of us in the consultative council (Al-Shura), one of us died and the other one got killed, so today we are four, and all of us abhor you-asws’. Ali-asws said to him: ‘That is not up to me-asws as during the consultation the command (Caliphate) was in the hands of someone else, and it was not in my-asws hands. Do you see that if I-asws intended – after the killing of Usman – to have this matter go into ‘Shura’ (consultation), which people have given to me-asws (after pledging allegiance to me-asws)? ’ He said, ‘No’. He-asws said: ‘And why not? ’
He said, ‘Because your-asws allegiance was carried out without any opposition’. Ali-asws said: ‘And how can that be, and the Helpers had their swords drawn and they were saying, ‘If you are free (from the consultation) and have not paid allegiance to one from among you, we will strike all of your necks’. Did I-asws say anything to you and to your companion anything like this when the two of you paid allegiance to me-asws? And my-asws argument in the abhorrence in the allegiance is clearer than your argument, and you and your companion had paid allegiance to me-asws willingly, not with abhorrence, and the two of you were the first ones to do that, and no one said that the two of you should pay allegiance or else he will kill both of you’. Talha turned and left, and the battle erupted. Talha was killed, and Al-Zubayr was defeated’’. [44]