Hadith 333

he Arabs? ’ He said, ‘Allah-azwj will not Satiate your bellies if you are not satiated with Egypt’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He gave it to him and wrote out an agreement for him, and Muawiya wrote upon that he will not break the condition of obedience. Amro wrote upon that he would not break his obedience, and each one of the two plotted against his counterpart. And there was with Amro a nephew of his, and youth, and he was shrewd. When Amro came with the agreement, happy, the youth was surprised and said, ‘Will you no inform us, O Amro, with which view will you live among Quraysh. You have given your world and killed the world of others. Do you view that the people of Egypt, and they have killed Usman, would hand it over to Muawiya while Ali-asws is alive? And do you view it coming to Muawiya without him having taken it with a single letter which precedes in the agreement? ’
Amro said, ‘O son of the brother! The command is for Allah-azwj besides Ali-asws and Muawiya’. The youth prosed a poem regarding that. Amro said to him, ‘O nephew! If I was with Ali-asws, my house would be large enough for me, but now I am with Muawiya’. The youth said to him, ‘If you do not want Muawiya, he does not want you, but you want his world and he wants your religion’. And the words of the youth reached Muawiya, so he sought him. He fled and joined up with Ali-asws, and narrated to him the matter of Amro and Muawiya. That cheered Ali-asws and he-asws drew him nearer. And Marwan was angered and said, ‘What is the matter I cannot but just as Amro has bought? ’ Muawiya said to him, ‘But rather we have bought the men for you’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When it reached Ali-asws what Muawiya and Amro had done, he-asws said (a couplet): ‘How strange, I-asws have heard evil, a lie upon Allah-azwj, marring the poetry’ – up to the end of what I (Majlisi) will be coming with from the couplets in the last chapters’’. [14]