Hadith 1

ich would correct you, it is the sword. And I-asws am not going to correct you all by spoiling myself-asws, but a difficult rules would overcome upon you. He will neither revere your elders nor have mercy on your young ones, nor will he honour your learned ones, nor will he distribute the war booty with the equality between you, and he will strike you and humiliate you and drag you into the battles, and cut of your ways, and he will block you from his door until your strong ones would devour your weak ones, then Allah-azwj will not Distance except one who is unjust, and a little of what turns around, it would come back. I-asws am thinking of you upon the gap period, and there is nothing upon me-asws except the advising to you all. O people of Al-Kufa! I-asws have been affected by you from three (things) and two – Deafness by the ones with ears, and muteness by the ones with tongues, and blindness by the ones with eyes. Neither are you sincere brothers during the meeting (battle), nor are your trustworthy brethrens during the afflictions. O Allah-azwj! I-asws am fed up with them and they are fed up with me-asws, and I-asws am tired of them and they are tired of me-asws. O Allah-azwj! Neither would a ruler be pleased from them nor would they be pleased from any ruler, and their hearts have dissolved like the dissolving of the salt in the water. But, by Allah-azwj! If I-asws could have found an escape from speaking to you and corresponding with you, I-asws would not have done it, and I-asws have reproached you in guiding you aright until the life became weary, and during all that you were returning mockingly from the words, fleeing from the truth and sticking to the falsehood which Allah-azwj does not Strengthen the religion by its (these kind of) people. And I am more knowing with you that you would not increase me in other than loss [11: 63]. Every time I-asws order you with Jihad against your enemies, you cling heavily to the ground? [9: 38] (become sluggish) and you are asking me-asws with the delaying (like) the defence of the one with prolonged debt. If I-asws say to you during the summer, ‘Travel! ’ You are saying, ‘The heat is severe’. And if I-asws say to you, ‘Travel during the cold! ’ You are saying, ‘The cold is severe’. All that amounts to fleeing from the war when you are frustrated from the heat and the cold, so you would be more frustrated from the heat of the sword, and even more frustrated. So, We are for Allah and we are returning to Him [2: 156]. O people of Al-Kufa! The shouter (herald) has come to me-asws informing me-asws that Ibn Ghamid has descended at Al-Anbar upon its inhabitants, among four thousand. He has raided upon them just as one would raid upon the Romans and Al-Khazars (Turks). He has killed my-asws office bearer Ibn Hassan at it, and killed righteous men along with him, ones with merits and worship and courage, may Allah-azwj Bless for them the Gardens of bliss, and it is His-azwj Permitting it. And it has reached me that the group from the people of Syria have entered