Hadith 23

mplate on the ways of the straying, you will recognise its travellers. Pause at what Allah-azwj has Paused you all upon them, and implement what Allah-azwj has Command you with, and the commander of the faithful is holding fast with Allah-azwj for you all and asks Him-azwj of (Granting you) inclinations, and wish to Him-azwj regarding your guidance, and Allah-azwj would Suffice, and upon Him-azwj you should rely, and there is neither might nor strength with Allah-azwj, the Exalted, the Magnificent’’. [74]
And he said in another place, ‘Muawiya ordered the people at Al-Iraq, and Syria and other places with reviling Ali-asws and the disavowing from him-asws, and he addressed with that upon the pulpits of, and that became a way during the days of the clan of Umayya until Umar Bin Abdul Aziz, and he stopped it’’. [75]
And Al-Jahiz said, ‘Muawiya was saying at the end of his Friday sermon, ‘O Allah-azwj! Abu Turab-asws has become an apostate in Your-azwj religion, and has blocked from Your-azwj Way, so Curse him-asws a calamitous Curse, and Punish him-asws with a painful punishment! ’
And he wrote with that to the horizons, and these words were being called with upon the pulpits up to the caliphate of Umar Bin Abdul Aziz’’. [76]
And Al-Mubarrad mentioned in (the book) ‘Al-Kamil’ – Khalid Bin Abdullah Al-Qarsy, when he was the ruler of Al-Iraq during the caliphate of Hisham, was cursing Ali-asws upon the pulpit’. [77]
And Al-Jahiz mentioned, ‘A group from the clan of Umayya said to Muawiya, ‘You have reached what you had hoped for, so if you could (now) refrain from cursing this man (Ali-asws)’. He said, ‘No, by Allah-azwj, until the young ones grow up upon it and the old ones become aged upon it’. And no preacher mentioned any merits being for him-asws. And Ziyad intended to present upon the people of Al-Kufa, the disavowing from Ali-asws, and cursing him-asws, and he killed every one who refused from that, and ruined his house. Allah-azwj Struck him on that day with the plague and he died after three days, and that was during the days (rule) of Muawiya’’. [78]
He said, ‘And Abu Ja’far Al-Iskafy said, ‘And it is reported that Muawiya spent (gave) one hundred thousand Dirhams to Samrah Bin Jundab until he reported that this Verse was reported regarding Ali-asws: And from the people there is one who astounds you with his speech regarding the life of the world, and he testifies to Allah upon what is in his heart, but he is the bitterest of the adversaries [2: 204] And when he turns around, he runs along in the land to cause mischief therein and destroy the farm and the lineage; and Allah does not love the mischief [2: 205]. And that the next Verse was Revealed regarding Ibn Muljim-la, and it is: And from the people there is one who sells his self, seeking the Pleasure of Allah; [2: 207]. But he did not accept, so he gave him with two hundred thousand Dirhams. But he did not accept, so he gave him three hundred thousand. But he did not accept, so he gave him four hundred (thousand). He accepted and reported that’’. [79]
And he said, ‘Muawiya placed a group from the companions and a group from the Tabi’een upon reporting ugly