Hadith 168

their soldiers had possessed, and as for what their houses, it is an inheritance for their offspring. So, if anyone of them were to be inimical to us, we would seize him due to his sin, and if he were to restrain from us, we will not load upon him the sins of others. O brother of Bakr! I-asws have judged among them with a judgment of Rasool-Allah-saww among the people of Makkah. He-saww had distributed whatever the soldiers had possessed and did not intrude upon what was besides that. And rather, I-asws followed his-saww tracks, step of the slipper with the slipper’. O brother of Bakr! Don’t you know that the house of war, it is permissible what is in it, and the house of the emigration, it is prohibited what is in it except by right. No! No! May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you all! If you do not ratify me-asws, and most of you are against me-asws, because more than one has spoken regarding this, then which one of you would take Ayesha as his share? ’
They said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! You are correct and we have erred, and you-asws are learned and we are ignorant, so we seek Forgiveness of Allah-azwj the Exalted’. And the people called out from every side, ‘You-asws are right, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Allah-azwj has Granted you-asws the Guidance and the Direction! ’
Ammar stood up and said, ‘O you people! By Allah-azwj! if you were to follow him-asws and obey him-asws, you will never stray from the spring of your Prophet-saww, not even the measurement of a hair. And how can that not happen to be and Rasool-Allah-saww has entrusted him-asws with knowledge of the deaths, and the inheritances, and the decisive address upon the manifesto of Haroun-as. And he-saww had said to him-asws: ‘You-asws are from me-saww at the status of Haroun-as from Musa-as except there would be no Prophet-saww after me-saww’, as a merit Allah-azwj has Specialised him-asws with it, and an Honour from Him-azwj to His-azwj Prophet-saww when He-azwj Gave him-asws what He-azwj did not Give anyone from His-azwj creatures’. Then Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Look at what you have been Commanded with, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on you, and accomplish it, for the scholar knows what he comes with more than the ignorant one does, the villain, the evil one. If you were to obey me-asws, if Allah-azwj so Desires, I-asws shall carry you all upon the way of salvation, and even though you may find it difficult (due to) hardships in it and the (short) spell of bitterness, but the world is only sweet (for the one) who is deceived by its sweetness – (that is) from the wretchedness but the regret after a little while. Then I-asws am informing you all that a generation from the children of Israel, their Prophet-as ordered them that they should not drink from the river, but they fell (over each other) in neglecting his-as orders, but they drank from it except for a few of them [2: 249]. May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you all! Be like those who obeyed their Prophet-as and do not disobey their Lord-azwj. And as for Ayesha, so the opinions of the women came across her, and for her, after that, is her former sanctity, and the Reckoning is upon Allah-azwj. He-azwj Forgives the one He-azwj so Desires to and Punishes the one He-azwj so Desires to’’. [45]