Hadith 21

tween Quraysh, and Rasool-Allah-saww and the People-asws of his-saww Household, and his-saww Family, the goodly ones. By Allah-azwj, we are better than you are – O community of Quraysh – and more beloved to Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww, and to the People-asws of the Household than you are. When Rasool-Allah-saww passed away, the Helpers gathered around my father Sa’ad, then said, ‘We will not pay allegiance to anyone other than Sa’ad’. Quraysh came with the argument of being from people close to his-saww Household, and disputed with us through his-saww right and his-saww kinship. Quraysh are nothing more than oppressors to the Helpers or oppressors to the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww. By my life, there is nothing for anyone neither from the Helpers, nor for the Quraysh, nor for any one from the Arabs and the non-Arabs in the Caliphate, any share or right is only for Ali Bin Abu Talib-asws and his-asws sons-asws from after him-asws’. Muawiya got angry and said, ‘O Ibn Sa’ad, from whom have you taken this, and from whom are you narrating it, and from whom have you heard it? Your father informed you of that and it is from him that you have taken it? ’ Qays said, ‘I heard it and took it from the one who is better than my father, and has a greater right over me than my father’. He said, ‘And who is that? ’
He said, ‘That is Amir-ul-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, the most knowledgeable one of this community, and it’s religious one, and it’s ‘Al-Siddique’ (Truthful one), and its ‘Al-Farouq’ (Differentiator) regarding whom Allah-azwj Revealed what He-azwj Revealed, and it is the Statement of the Mighty and Majestic: Say: ‘I suffice with Allah as a Witness between me and you, and one with whom is Knowledge of the Book [13: 43]. Qays did not leave out any verse which had been Revealed regarding Ali-asws, except that he mentioned it. Muawiya said, ‘It’s ‘Al-Siddique’ (truthful) one is Abu Bakr, and its differentiator (Farouq) is Umar, and the one with whom is the knowledge of the whole of the Book, he is Abdullah Bin Salaam’. Qays said, ‘The one deserving of these names (titles) and the one who is the first for it is the one-asws for whom Allah-azwj Revealed: So the one who was upon a clear Proof from his Lord, and a witness from him recites it, [11: 17]. And the one whom the Rasool-Allah-saww nominated at Ghadeer Khumm saying: ‘The one to whom I-saww was higher to than his own self, so Ali-asws is higher to him than his own self’, and Rasool-Allah-saww said to him-asws during the (military) expedition of Tabuk: ‘You-asws are from me-saww of the status which Haroun-as had with Musa-as except that there is no Prophet-as after me-saww’. And in those days Muawiya was in Al-Medina. So he called upon a caller to proclaim, and that was written and copied to all the cities to his office bearers, ‘I am not responsible for the one who reports Ahadeeth regarding the merits of Ali-asws bin Abu Talib-asws, or the merits of the Ahl Al-Bayt-asws (People-asws of his-asws Household)’. And the preachers in every town and place, and upon every Pulpit stood up to curse Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws,