Hadith 104

whatever is in it’. He said, ‘And what is in these stalls? ’ He-asws said: ‘In it is wealth of the traders’. He said, ‘Are you-asws instructing me to break the stalls of a people who have relied upon Allah-azwj and made their wealth to be in it? ’ Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Are you instructing me-asws to open the public treasury of the Muslims and give you their wealth, and they have relied upon Allah-azwj and locked upon it? And if you so desire, you can take your sword and I-asws can take my-asws sword, and we can both go out together to Al-Hira, for there are affluent traders there. We can enter to one of them and we can seize his wealth’. He said, ‘And should we go as thieves? ’ He-asws said: ‘Stealing from one is better than stealing from entirety of the Muslims’. He said, ‘Will you-asws permit me to go out to Muawiya? ’ He-asws said to him: ‘I-asws have permitted you’. He said, ‘Then assist me upon this journey of mine’. He-asws said: ‘O Hassan-asws! Give your-asws uncle four hundred Dirhams! ’
Aqeel went out and he was saying (a couplet), ‘He will enrich me, the one who Made you-asws needless from me, and the Lord-azwj will Pay of our debts very soon’’. [27]
And Amro Bin Ala’a mentioned, ‘When Aqeel asked for his stipend from the public treasury, Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to him: ‘Stay up to the day of Friday’. He stayed. When Amir Al-Momineen-asws had prayed the Friday Salat, he-asws said to Aqeel: ‘What is your view regarding the one who betrays all of these (people)? ’ He said, ‘That would be an evil man’. He-asws said: ‘But you instructed me-asws to betray them and give you! ’
And from a sermon of his-asws: ‘And I-asws have seen Aqeel and he had become bankrupt to the extent that he wanted to take from me-asws a ‘Sa’a of your wheat, and he returned to me-asws regarding a tenth of a bag of your barley to break his hunger, and he was folding (with hunger) for three days having no capacity, and I-asws have seen his children shabby from its harm. It is as if their faces had shrivelled from the cold. When he returned to me-asws regarding his words and repeated it, I-asws listened to him intently, so it deceived him into thinking that I-asws would spoil my-asws religion and follow what would make him happy. I-asws heated an iron for him to rebuke. When he could not touch it nor be patient, then I-asws drew it closer to his body. He yelled from its pain, a roar from one suffering from fatal illness, and he almost reviled me-asws foolishly from his rage, and his burning in a flame was closer to him than his bankruptcy. I-asws said to him: ‘May the bereaving ones be bereft of you, O Aqeel! You are yelling from a harm and will not be yelling from the Fire (of Hell)? ’’[28]
And from Umm Usman, mother of the children of Ali-asws, she said, ‘I came to Ali-asws and in front of him-asws were some beaded jewellery, in Al-Rahba. I said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Gift to my daughter from this a necklace of beads’. He-asws s