Hadith 176

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported from Abu Al Sayrafi, from a man from Murad who said, ‘I was standing by the head of Amir Al-Momineen-asws on the day of Al-Basra when Ibn Abbas came to him-asws after the fighting. He said, ‘There is a need for me to you-asws’. He-asws said: ‘What I-asws recognise with the need regarding which you have come, is to seek the amnesty for Ibn Al-Hakam’. He said, ‘I want you-asws to grant him amnesty’. He-asws said: ‘I-asws grant him amnesty, but go to him and come to me-asws with him, but do not come to me-asws with him as one riding behind the other, for it is a humiliation for him’. Ibn Abbas came with him as riding behind him, as if he was his servant. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to him: ‘Will you pledge allegiance? ’ He said, ‘Yes, and in the self what is therein’. He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj is more Knowing with what is in the hearts’. When he extended his hand for him to pledge to him-asws, grabbed back his-asws wrist away from the wrist of Marwan and drooped it. He-asws said: ‘There is no need for me-asws regarding it. It is a palm of a Jew. Even if he were to pledge to me-asws twenty times, he would break it by the evening’. Then he-asws said: ‘O Ibn Al-Hakam! You are fearing upon your head that it might fall in this turmoil. Never, by Allah-azwj! Until there emerge from your loins, so and so, and so and so, misleading this community to submergence and quenching them from a cup of combat’’. [54]