Hadith 17

e your words from your deeds, and how close to what resembles from the paternal uncles and maternal uncles, the wretchedness and the false wishes had carried them upon the rejection of Muhammad-saww. They were cut down in their lying places where you know they did not push away any major (sin) and did not prevent any prohibition, by the falling sword what there was no escape from it and did not walk our gentleness. And you have frequented regarding the killers of Usman, so enter into what the people have entered into, then let the people bring the judgment to me-asws, I-asws shall carry you and them upon the Book of Allah-azwj. And as for that which you want, it is (like) deceiving of the child from the milk during the beginning of the weaning. And the greetings be to its deserving ones’’. [73]
And Ibn Maysam and Ibn Abi Al Hadeed said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws wrote to Muawiya: ‘As for after, surely the word is sweet, green, with adornments and splendour, no one adores it except he gets pre-occupied by its adornments away from what is beneficial for him. We are commanded with the Hereafter and upon it we are urged. So, leave, O Muawiya, what is perishing and work for what remains, and be cautious of the death to which is your destiny, and the Reckoning to which is your end-result. And know that when Allah-azwj Wants good with a servant, Forms a barrier between him and what he dislikes, and Harmonises him to His-azwj obedience; and when He-azwj Wants evil with a servant, Lets him be deceived by the world and he forgets the Hereafter, and the hopes are extended for him, and he stops from what there is his betterment in it. And your letter has arrived to me-asws and I-asws find you aiming for other than your purpose, and looking for other than your lost property, and you are groping in blindness and are lost in straying, and are attaching to other than a proof, and reacting to the weakest of suspicions. And for your asking me-asws to leave you alone and acknowledge Syria to be for you (to govern), if I-asws was going to do that today, I-asws would have done it yesterday. And as for your words that Umar had placed you in charge of it, so Umar had removed the ones whom his companion (Abu Bakr) had placed in charge, and Usman had removed the ones whom Umar had placed in charge, and a leader is not installed for the people except one can see the betterment of the community what had appeared for the one who were before him, or his errors are hidden from him; and a matter newly occurs after a matter, and for each ruler there is a view, and striving. Glory be to Allah-azwj! How intense is your necessitating for the personal desires, the innovations and the confusion, followed by a waste of realities, and discarding the documents which these are a Demand of Allah-azwj and an Argument upon His-azwj servants. As for your frequenting regarding Usman and his killers, but rather you helped Usman when the help was for you, and abandoned him when the help was for him. And the greetings’’. [74]