Hadith 829

(The books) ‘Kunz Jamie Al Fawaid’ and ‘Taweel Al Ayaat Al Zaahira’ – Muhammad Bin Al Abbas, from Muhammad Bin Al Qasim Bin Ubeyd, from Ja’far Bin Abdullah Al Muhammady, from Ahmad Bin Ismail, from Al Abbas Bin Abdul Rahman, from Suleyman, from Al Kalby, from Abu Salih, from Ibn Abbas who said, ‘When the Prophet-saww proceeded to Al-Medina, He-saww gave Ali-asws and Usman a land, the higher part of is for Usman and its lower one for Ali-asws. So Ali-asws said to Usman: ‘My-asws land will not be correct unless if it is with your land, therefore either buy from me-asws or sell to me’. He said to him-asws, ‘I shall sell to you-asws’. So Ali-asws bought it from him. But his companion (Abdul Rahman Bin Awf) said to him, ‘Which thing did you do? You sold your land to Ali-asws! And you, had you withheld the water from him-asws, nothing would have grown on his-asws land, until he-asws would have sold in according to your decision (price)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So Usman came to Ali-asws and said to him-asws, ‘The sale is not allowed’. He-asws said to him: ‘You sold and were pleased, and (now) that isn’t for you (to withdraw from it)’’. He said, ‘Then make another man to be (a judge) between you-asws and you-asws’. Ali-asws said: ‘I-asws will not take the judgment to any other than the Prophet-saww, and the Prophet-saww would be a witness upon us! ’
But he refused that, so Allah-azwj Revealed these Verses up to His-azwj Words: And they are saying, ‘We believe in Allah and in the Rasool and we obey! ’ Then a group of them turned back after this, and they are not with the Momineen [24: 47] And when they are called to Allah and His Rasool for him to judge between them, then a group of them are turning aside [24: 48] – up to His-azwj Words: they would be the successful ones [24: 51]’’. [119]