Hadith 433

Nasr said, ‘And it is reported by Al Shaby, from Sa’sa’a, ‘A word rushed out from Al-Ash’as Bin Qays on ‘Laylat Al-Hareer, the transmitters transmitted it to Muawiya. It saddened him and he built his plan upon it, and that is that he had addressed his companions from Kinda on that night and said in his address, ‘You have seen, O community of Muslims, what has happened during this day of yours past, and there has been an annihilation from the Arabs. By Allah-azwj! I have reached from the years (age) what Allah-azwj has Desired to reach, but I have not seen a day like this at all. Indeed! Let the one present deliver it to the absentee, and that we should be stopping tomorrow. It is an annihilation of the Arabs and wastage of the sanctities’, or said approximate to that from what would make them forsake (abandon) the fighting. When that reached Muawiya, he said, ‘He is correct, by Lord-azwj of the Kabah! ’ He planned that night what he planned from raising of the Qurans upon the spears. They came with the Qurans calling out, ‘The Book of Allah-azwj is between us and you all! ’’
He (the narrator) said, ‘Aday Bin Hatima came and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! There has not been any slain from us except and there has been slain from them similar to it, and all of it is a sore, but we represent the remainder of them, and the people are alarmed, and there isn’t after the alarm except what you-asws love, so accomplish for them’. And Al-Ashtar stood up and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Muawiya, there is no replacement for him from his men, and for you-asws, by the Praise of Allah-azwj, is the replacement, and if there were for him similar to your-asws men, there would not have been for him your-asws patience, nor your-asws help. So, knock the iron with the iron and seek Assistance with Allah-azwj the Glorious’. And Amro Bin Al-Hamiq said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! By Allah-azwj, we neither answered you-asws nor helped you-asws upon the falsehood, nor did we answer except Allah-azwj, nor are we seeking except the truth, and if someone else had called us to what you-asws have called us to, we would have been reluctant in it and the consultations would have been prolonged, and the truth has reached its section, and there isn’t any (other) view for us with you-asws’. Al-Ash’as stood up angrily and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! We are for you-asws today upon what we were upon yesterday, and our last affair is not like its first, and there is no one from the people more supportive of the people of Al-Iraq, nor tense towards the people of Syria, than me, so answer the people to the Book of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, for you-asws are more rightful with it than they are, and the people love the survival and dislike the fighting’. Ali-asws said: ‘This is a matter to be looked into’, and the people were calling out from every side, ‘The reconciliation! The reconciliation! ’’
And in a Hadeeth of Umar Bin Sa’ad, he said, ‘When the people of Syria raised the Quran upon the spears, Ali-asws said: ‘O you people! I-asws am more rightful one to answer to the Book of Allah-azwj, but Muawiya, and Amro Bin Al-Aas, and Ibn Abu Mueet, and Ibn Abu Sar’h, and Ibn Maslama, they are neither companions of the religion nor of the Quran. I-asws am more understanding with them than you are. I-asws have accompanied them as you and as men. They were evil as young and evil as men. Woe be unto you all! It is a word of truth intending the falsehood with it. They are neither raising it and they are understanding it, nor are they learned with it, but it is the deception, and the weakness, and the plot! Can you lend me your help and your skulls for one hour? The truth has rea