Hadith 30

Al-Junub (one with sexual impurity) from performing the Tayammum. There are many things of his ways which have more than a thousand subjects (of innovations). The greatest and the most beloved to us, and the coolness for our eyes is the snatching of the Caliphate from the Clan of Hashim, and they were its deserving ones and its mines, because it is not suitable except for them-asws, and the earth is not suitable except by them-asws. So, when you read this letter of mine, conceal what is in it and tear it up’. (Ziyad Bin Samiya) said, ‘When Ziyad read the letter, he threw it on the ground, then turned towards me and said, ‘Woe be to me from what I have come out of and what I have entered into. By Allah-azwj, I used to be from the Shiites of the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww and its party. I came out from it, and entered to be an adherent of Satan-la and his-la party, and an adherent of the one who has written this letter (Muawiya). But rather, my example is like the example of Iblees-la who refused to prostrate to Adam-as due to arrogance and infidelity and envy’. Sulaym said, ‘I did not wait even for a day until I copied his (Muawiya’s) letter. When it was night time, Ziyad called for the letter. He tore it up and said, ‘Do not notify anyone from the people of what is in this letter’, and he did not know that I had copied it’’. [123]
And I (Majlisi) have found as well in the mentioned book, by a report of Aban, from Suleym who said, ‘It is narrated to me by Abdullah son of Ja’far-as Bin Abu Talib-asws having said, ‘I was in the presence of Muawiya and with us were Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, and in his presence was Abdullah Bin Abbas. Muawiya turned towards me and said, ‘O servant of Allah-azwj! How intense is your reverence to Al-Hassan-asws and although Al-Husayn-asws, and they-asws are not better than you, nor was their-asws father-asws better than your father, and had it not been for (Syeda) Fatima-asws being daughter-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww, I would say your mother Asma’a Bint Umeys is not below her-asws’. I said, ‘By Allah-azwj! You are of little knowledge with them-asws, and their-asws father-asws, and their-asws mother-asws. But, by Allah-azwj, they-asws are both better than me, and their-asws father-asws is better than my father, and their-asws mother-asws is better than my mother. O Muawiya! You are heedless from what I have heard from Rasool-Allah-saww saying regarding them-asws, and their-asws father-asws and their-asws mother-asws, from what I have memorised, and retained, and reported’. He said, ‘Give, O son of Ja’far-as, for by Allah-azwj, you are not a liar, nor accused’. I said to him, ‘It is greater than what is within myself’. He (Muawiya) said, ‘And even if it was greater than (mountains of) Ohad and Hira altogether. I don’t care when Allah-azwj has already Killed your master-asws, and Separated your unity, and the command has come to be among it’s rightful. So, narrate to us, for we don’t really care what you say, and it will not harm us what you would be counting’. I said, ‘I heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying, and he-saw