Hadith 9

‘We have not stopped being surprised from your-asws pledging allegiance to Muawiya and there are forty thousand fighters from the people of Al-Kufa with you-asws. All of them are taking the awards and they are at the doors of their house, and along with them are their like, from their sons and their followers, besides your-asws Shias from the people of Al-Basra and Al-Hijaz. Then you-asws did not take any assurances for yourself-asws in the pact nor any share from the award. If only, when you-asws did what you-asws did, had kept witnessed upon Muawiya, faces of the east and the west, and written an agreement upon him that the command should be for you-asws after him-asws, the matter would have been easier upon us, but he gave you‑asws something between you-asws and him, he will not be loyal with it’. Then it was not long before he said at the heads of the ones present, ‘If you-asws could have stipulated conditions and taken promises intending to extinguish the fire of war and complying in order to terminate the Fitna. When Allah-azwj had gathered for us words and affection, so that is now under the feet. By Allah-azwj! He did not mean by that apart from you‑asws, and he did not intend except what had happened between you-asws and him, and he has broken (the agreement). So, if you-asws like, you-asws can return to war as a deception and permit for me I can go ahead of you-asws to Al-Kufa and except his office bearer from it and reveal his removal, and banish him to him, then discard (the agreement) to them upon equality, surely Allah does not Love the treacherous [8: 58]’. And the rest of them spoke like the speech of Suleyman. Al-Hassan-asws said: ‘You are our-asws Shias and people of our-asws cordiality. If you were decisive in the matter of the world, then do it, and run and set up for its authority. Muawiya was not mightier than me-asws in mighty, nor is he of severe obstinacy than me-asws, nor is he of more accomplished determination, but I-asws can see other than what you are seeing, and I-asws did not intend with what I-asws did, except to save the blood. So, be pleased with the Decree of Allah-azwj and submit to His-azwj Command and stay in your houses and withhold! ’ Or he-asws said: ‘Restrain your hands until the righteous are rested, or they are rested from mischief-makers’’. [20]
And it has been reported that he-asws, when Muawiya demanded that he-asws speak to the people and let them know what is with him-asws in this subject, he-asws stood up, praise Allah‑azwj the Exalted and extolled upon Him-azwj, then said: ‘The cleverest of the clever is the pious one, and the foolish of the foolish one is the mischief-maker. O you people! If you were to search between Jabalqa and Jabarsa, any man whose grandfather is Rasool-Allah-azwj, you will not be able to find him, apart from me-asws and my‑asws brother-asws Al-Husayn-asws, and Allah-azwj has Guided you all by the friends of Muhammad‑saww. Muawiya has disputed me of a right which is for me-asws, but I-asws have left it for the betterment of the community and saving its blood, and you have pledged to me based upon that you will be at peace with the one I-asws am at peace with. You have seen that I-asws have made peace with him, and you have seen that what saves the blood is better than what spills it, and I-asws wanted your betterment and that what I-asws have done should become an argument upon the one who would with for this command, And I know, perhaps it is a Fitna for you and a provision up to a time’ [21: 111]’’. [21]