Hadith 61

ding the fruits of your deeds as being bitter, reaping the plant of your hands, being shrivelled, shredded, and lethally poisonous. And you will be sufficed with Allah-azwj as a Judge, and with Rasool-Allah-saww as a disputant, and with the Qiyamah as a pausing station, and Allah-azwj will not distance anyone during it besides you all, nor will anyone be unfortunate during it apart from you. And the greetings upon the one who follows the guidance’. When Abu Bakr read the letter, he was frightened from it with intense fright, and said, ‘O Glory be to Allah-azwj! How daring of Ali-asws, and his-asws denouncement of others! Community of the Emigrants and the Helpers! You all know I consulted you regarding the estate of Fadak after Rasool-Allah-saww, and you said, ‘The Prophets-as do not leave inheritance, and this wealth obligates that it be added to the wealth of the war booty, and to be spent regarding the expense of the horses and the weapons and the various matters of the Jihad, and matters of correctness, so I went upon your opinions and did not give it to the one who claimed it. And here he-asws is, a lightning threat, and thundering a threat, drawing attention to the right of his-asws Prophet-as that has been prevented, like drying the blood. By Allah-azwj! I stayed independent from it and did not say (a thing), and isolated it from myself, but I did not isolate all that as a precaution from abhorrence of the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws, but to escape from conflict, and what is to me and the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws? Has anyone remove it, and stumbled upon it? ’
Umar said to him, ‘Did you refuse to say anything except like this? You are a son of the one who did not happen to be at the forefront in the wards, nor generous during the dry (infertile) times. Glory be to Allah-azwj! How panic-stricken is your heat, and how small is your soul! I have cleared the drink for you to drink it, but you refused except that you will be thirsty like your thirst. And I upset the necks of the Arabs for you and affirmed for you a government of the symbolic people and the management, and had I not done that, the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws would have turned your bones into dust. So, praise Allah-azwj what has been gifted for you from me, and thank Him-azwj upon that, for the one who ascend the pulpit of Rasool-Allah-saww, there would be a right upon him that he presents thanks to Allah-azwj. And this is Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, the solid rock which its water cannot burst forth except after breaking it, and the multi-coloured snake which cannot be responded to except with the charm, and the bitter three which even if it were to be coated with honey, it would not grow except bitterness. He-asws killed the chiefs of Quraysh and distanced them, and he-asws necessitated shame for the last of them, and exposed them. So, better yourself and do not be deceived by his-asws lightning, and do not let his-asws thunder terrify you, for I shall close his-asws door before he-asws closes your door’. Abu Bakr said, ‘I adjure you with Allah-azwj, O Um