Hadith 26

do not look at you and the laughter reaches me’. He said, ‘Due to what is that? ’ He said, ‘Remember the day Abu Turab-asws had attacked upon you in Siffeen? You saved yourself from the shine of his-asws blade and uncovered your private parts to him-asws. Amro said, ‘I am laughing more intensely from you. I remember the day he-asws called you to the duel, and your sorcery was blown, and your tongue rolled back into your mouth, and you choked upon your saliva, and your limbs trembled, and it appeared from you what is disliked’. Muawiya said after what had flowed between the two, ‘The cowardice and the fleeing from Ali-asws, there is no shame upon anyone in it’. And Busr was from the one who laughed from Amro. When he knew (realised) that there is no escape, he followed his steps and became laughing to him as well’’. [101]
And it is reported by Ibn Abu Al Hadeed, from Al Baladuri in ‘Kitab Ansaab Al Ashraaf’, said, ‘Amro Bin Al-Aas stood in the season (of Hajj) and he complimented Muawiya, and clan of Umayya, and criticised the clan of Hashim-asws and mentioned his own attendance at Siffeen and the day of Abu Musa. Ibn Abbas stood up to him. He said, ‘O Amro! You sold your religion to Muawiya and he gave you what is (now) in your hands, and conferred you with what is in the hands of others. But that which he has taken from you is above (far more) than that which he gave you, and that which he took from you is lower (far less) than that which he gave you, and each (of you) is pleased of what is taken and given. When Egypt came to be in your hand, he followed you with the annulment upon you, and pursuance to your matter, then with the isolation for you, to the extent that if your soul was in your hands, you would have sent it (to him); and I remember your day with Abu Musa (Al-Ashari), I did not see you priding except with the treachery, nor die you confer except with the immoralities, and the fraud. And I remember your attendance at Siffeen. By Allah-azwj! Your treading was not heavy upon us, nor was your audacity regarding us, and you were of a long tongue during it, short of the injuries, last to war when it came, and first of it when it went away. For you, there are two hands – a hand you are not hold back from evil, and a hand you are not extending to good, and two faces – a comforting face and a brutal face. And by my life! One who sells his religion for the world would change it to be free of his sorrow upon what he sold. And for you there are explanations, but in you there are faults, and for you there are views, but in you are failures, and the smallest fault in you is the greatest fault in others’’. [102]