Hadith 42

And it is reported by Al Kalby who said, ‘When Ali-asws intended the journey to Al-Basra, he-asws stood to address the people. He-asws said after having praised Allah-azwj and Salawaat upon His-azwj Rasool-saww: ‘When Allah-azwj Caused His-azwj Prophet-saww to pass away, Quraysh monopolised against us with the command and pushed us-asws away from a right we-asws were more rightful with it than the people altogether. I-asws viewed that the patience upon that is better than divide the word of the Muslims and spilling their blood, and the people had a new pact with and the religion, churning the medicine with a churning, spoiling it by the lowly and the weak, mirrored by the least of the morals. A group became in charge of the command who did not follow the struggle in their affairs. Then they got transferred to the house of the Recompense. And Allah-azwj is a Guardian Examining their evil deeds, and the Pardoning from their blunders. What is the matter with Talha and Al-Zubeyr they are not with a way from this command. They were not patient upon me-asws, neither for a year nor a month until they pounced and pierced through to snatch away from me-asws a matter Allah-azwj has not Made a way to it to be for them, after they had both pledged to me-asws without coercion. They are breastfeeding from a mother who has dried up, and are reviving an innovation which has died. Is it the blood of Usman they are claiming to seek? By Allah-azwj! There is no responsibility (for it) except with them and in them, and the greatest of their arguments is against their ownselves, and I-asws am pleased with the Argument of Allah-azwj against them, and His-azwj Knowledge regarding them. So, if they were to be loyal and are penitent, then their share would be achieved, and they themselves would be a booty, and the war booty would be magnified with it; and if they refuse, I-asws shall give them an edge of the sword, and Suffice with it as a helper of a right, and a healer from falsehood’. Then he-asws descended’’. [46]