Hadith 117

(The book) ‘Al Ikhtisas’ – It is narrated to us by Ubeydullah, from Ahmad Bin Ali Bin Al-Hassan Bin Shazan, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Al Fazl Bin Aamir Al Kufy, from Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad Bin Al Farazdaq, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Amrawiya, from Al-Hassan Bin Musa, from Ali Bin Asbaat, from someone else from the companions of Ibn Da’ab who said, ‘I met the people discussing that the Arabs were saying, ‘If Allah-azwj were to Send a Prophet-as among us, there would happen to be seventy qualities in one of his-as companions, honourable in the world and the Hereafter’. They looked around and investigated whether ten qualities had been gathered in one merit from seventy. They could not find any quality gathered for the religion and the world, and they found ten qualities gathered in the world and there wasn’t anything for the religion from it, and they found Zuheyr Bin Habbab Al-Kalby, and they found him to be a poet, physician, horseman, astrologer, noble, helping, soothsayer, lineage expert, pardoning, war poet, and they mentioned that he had been living for three hundred years, and having worn down four fleshes. Ibn Daib said, ‘Then they looked around and investigated among the Arabs, and the consideration was by the people of vision, but there was no one in whom the qualities had been gathered, being for the religion and the world with the consistency upon what they liked and disliked, except being in Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. So, they envied him-asws with such an envy corrupting the heart and confiscating the deeds, and he-asws was the most rightful of the people, and their foremost with that, when Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic demolished the houses of the Polytheists by him-asws, and Helped the Rasool-saww by him-asws, and the religion was cherished due to him-asws in his-asws killing the ones from the Polytheists he-asws killed during the military expeditions of the Prophet-saww’. Ibn Da’ib said, ‘We said to them, ‘And what are these qualities? ’ They said, ‘The consoling to the Rasool-saww, and exerting himself-asws besides him-saww, and the protection, and repelling the grievances away from him-saww, and the ratification of the Rasool-saww with the promise, and the ascetism, and neglecting the long hopes and the life, and the benevolence, and the eloquence in the address, and the governance, and the leniency, and the knowledge, and the judgments with the decisiveness, and the bravery; And leaving the joyfulness during the victory, and neglecting the excessive retaliation, and neglecting the deceit and the plotting and the betrayal, and neglecting the punishing despite being able upon it, and the sincere desire to Allah-azwj, and feeding the food upon His-azwj love, and considering insignificant whatever from the world he-asws had won with, and neglecting to preferring himself-asws and his-asws children over anyone from his-asws citizens, and his-asws eating the lowest of the citizens were eating, and his-asws wearing the lowest (quality clothes) of anyone from the Muslims; And his-asws distributing with the fairness, and his-asws justice among the citizens, and his-asws strictness in his-asws wars and the people had abandoned him-asws. Thus, he-asws was, during the abandonment by the people and their going away from h