Hadith 12

were the clothes for the travelling. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I have come to you from a city I did not see any one in it who loves you-asws’. He-asws said: ‘Where are you coming from? ’ He said, ‘From Al-Basra’. He-asws said: ‘But they, if they were able to love me-asws, they would love me-asws, and I-asws and my-asws Shias are in the Covenant of Allah-azwj. Neither one man would increase among us nor reduce from us until the Day of Qiyamah’’. [39]
And it is reported by Abu Gassan al Basry who said, ‘The sons of Ubeydullah Bin Ziyad had four Masajids at Al-Basra, standing upon the hatred of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and the events in it – Masjid of clan of Aday, and Masjid of clan of Majashie, and Masjid which was among the animal feeds in the direction of Al-Basra, and Masjid among Al-Azd’’. [40]
And from the ones who said that he hated Ali-asws and condemned him-asws was Al-Hassan Bin Abu Al-Hassan Al-Basry. Abu Saeed, Hammad Bin Salama reported from him that he said, ‘If Ali-asws had eaten the inferior dates at Al-Medina, it would have been better for him-asws than what he-asws entered into’. And it is reported that he was from the ones who abandoned from helping him-asws’’. And it is reported that Ali-asws saw him while he was performing Wud’u for the Salat, and he was with uncertainty, so he poured a lot of water upon his forearm. He-asws said to him: ‘You are sprinkling a lot of water, O Hassan! ’ He said to him-asws, ‘What Amir Al-Momineen-asws has sprinkled from the blood of Muslims, is more’. He-asws said: ‘And that makes you sad? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘You will not cease to be sad’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He did not cease to be frowning, bleak, worried, until he died’. Then Ibn Abu Al-Hadeed said, ‘As for our companions, they are defending that from him and are saying that he was from ones who loved Ali-asws and revering to him’’. [41]
And it reported for him by Aban Bin Ayyash who said, ‘I asked Al-Hassan Al-Basry about Ali-asws. He said, ‘What can I say regarding him-asws? There was for him-asws, the precedence, and the merit, and the knowledge, and the wisdom, and the understanding, and the view, and the accompaniment, and the suffering, and the seriousness, and the ascetism, and the judging, and the kinship. Surely, Ali-asws, in his-asws affairs, was exalted, so may Allah-azwj have Mercy on Ali-asws and Send Salawaat upon him-asws’. I said, ‘O Abu Saeed! Are you saying that Allah-azwj should Send Salawaat upon other than the Prophet-saww? ’ He said, ‘Have mercy upon the Muslims when they are mentioned and send Salawaat upon the Prophet-saww and his-saww Progeny-asws, and Ali-asws is the best of his-saww Progeny-asws’. I said, ‘Is he-asws better than Hamza-as and Ja’far-as? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Is he-asws better than (Syeda) Fatima-asws and her-asws two sons-asws? ’ He said, ‘Yes, by Allah-azwj! He-asws is better than the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww, all of them, and who can doubt he-asws is better than them-asws and Rasool-Allah-saww has said: ‘And their-asws fa