Hadith 325

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed – Al Marzubani, from Muhammad Bin Musa, from Muhammad Bin Sahl, from Hisham Bin Muhammad Bin Al Saib, from Abu Mikhnaf Lut Bin Yahya, from Al Haris Bin Haseyra, from Abdul Rahman Bin Ubeyd Abu Al Kanoud who said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws arrived from Al-Basra to Al-Kufa on the twelfth night vacant from Rajab. He-asws came until he-asws ascended the pulpit. He-asws praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj. Then he-asws said: ‘As for after, the Praise is for Allah-azwj Who Helped His-azwj friend and Forsook His-azwj enemy, and Endeared the truthful, the rightful, and Disgraced the liar, the false. Upon you all, O people of this city, is to be with fear of Allah-azwj and obedience of the ones who obey Allah-azwj, from People-asws of the Household of your Prophet-saww, those who are foremost with your obedience in what they-asws are obeying Allah-azwj in, that the imposters, the claimants, the exaggerators, those who are meriting themselves with our-asws merits, and they are rejecting us-asws of it, and disputing us-asws of our-asws rights, and pushing us-asws away from it. And they have tasted the evil results of what they have perpetrated, so they will soon be facing Ghayya [19: 59]. Men from you had sat back from helping me-asws, so I-asws gently reproaching upon them. Stay away from them and make them listen to what they are disliking until they admit or we see from them what we are pleased with. He (the narrator) said, ‘Malik Bin Habeeb Al-Tameemi stood up to him-asws, then Al-Yarbouie, and he was in charge of his-asws police, he said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I see the forsaking and abhorrent names for them after a little while. By Allah-azwj! If you-asws were to order us, we would kill them’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to him: ‘O Maal (Malik)! You are exceeding the limit, and being inimical to the rights, and are submerged in the disputes’. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Some tyranny is more reaching in the affairs of repentance than reconciliating with the enemies’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘The Decree of Allah-azwj isn’t like that, O Maal (Malik)! Allah-azwj the Exalted Said: the soul is for the soul [5: 45], so what is the status of some tyranny? And the Glorious Said: and one who is killed unjustly, so We have Made an authority to be for his guardian, but he should not be excessive in the killing. He would always be Helped [17: 33]’. Abu Burdah Bin Awf Al-Azdy stood up to him-asws, and he was an Usmanite (supporter of Usman), having stayed back from him-asws on the day of the camel, and he was present with him-asws at Siffeen upon weakness of his intention in helping him-asws. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! What is your-asws view of the ones killed around Ayesha, and Talha and Al-Zubeyr, for what were they killed? ’
Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘They were killed due to their having killed my-asws Shias, and for their having killed a brother of Rabie Al-Abdy, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him, among a group of the Muslims who had said, ‘We will not beak the allegiance just as you have broken, nor will we betray just as you have betrayed’. So, they had leapt upon them and killed them unjustly and aggressively. I-asws had