Hadith 33

And someone else narrated to them, ‘When Muawiya Bin Sufyan flowed the canals which were in Ohad, he ordered with the graves of the martyrs, and these were exhumed. A man struck with his pickaxe and hit a toe of Hamza-as, may Allah-azwj be Pleased with him-as. The blood spurted from his-as toe. It was extracted wet, flexible (fresh). And Abdullah Bin Amro Bin Hizam, and Amro Bin Al-Jamouh were extracted, and they had both been killed on the day of Ohad, and they were wet, flexible (fresh), after forty years. They were buried in one grave, and Amro Bin Al-Jamouh had been lame. Abu Saeed Al-Khudri said, ‘There it is such a thing, after it I shall neither instruct with the good nor forbid from evil’’. [132]
Kitab Al Gharaat of Ibrahim Al Saqafi who said, ‘It reached us that Muawiya said to Haysam Bin Al-Aswad, and he was an Usmanite (supporter of Usman), and his wife was of an Alawite (supporter of Ali-asws) view, loving Ali-asws, and she wrote the news of Muawiya in horse-skin, and she handed it to his-asws soldiers in Siffeen. Muawiya said, ‘O Hisham! Are the people of Al-Iraq more advising to Ali-asws or the people of Syria are to me? ’ He said, ‘The people of Al-Iraq, before they were struck with the afflictions, were more advising to their companion than the people of Syria’. He said, ‘And why is that so? ’
He said, ‘Because the people being advising to Ali-asws upon the religion, while the people of Syria are upon the world, and the people of religion are more patient, and they are the people of insight and help, while the people of the world are despairing and greedy. Then, by Allah-azwj, the people of Al-Iraq did not wait long before they threw the religion behind their backs and looked at the world which is in your hands. So, no one from them will achieve it except the one who joins up with you’’. Muawiya said, ‘So, what prevents Al-Ash’as Bin Qays from seeking what is before us? ’ He said, ‘He is too honourable himself from becoming a chief in shame, and sinning in greed’. He said, ‘Was your wife writing the news to Ali-asws in the horse skin, so you followed? ’ He said, ‘Yes’’. [133]