Hadith 21

and disavowed from him-asws, and narrated (derogatory) stories about him-asws and the Ahl Al-Bayt-asws which was not regarding them-asws, and cursed them-asws. Then Muawiya passed by a group of Quraysh. When they saw him, they stood up apart from Abdullah Bin Abbas. He said to him, ‘O Ibn Abbas, what prevented you from standing like your companions did, except for the effects in yourself against me due to my fighting against you on the Day of Siffeen? O Ibn Abbas, the son of my uncle Usman, was killed unjustly’. Ibn Abbas said to him, ‘Umar Bin Al-Khattab was (also) killed unjustly, so should we submit the affair to his son, and this (here) is his son? ’ He said, ‘Umar was killed by a Polytheist’. Ibn Abbas said, ‘So who killed Usman? ’ He said, ‘The Muslims killed him’. He said, ‘Then it refutes your argument, if Muslims killed him, then his blood was permissible (to be shed), and abandoned him. It was not, except by the truth’. Muawiya said, ‘We have written to the far horizons prohibiting the mentioning of the merits of Ali-asws and the Ahl Al-Bayt-asws, so restrain your tongue – O Ibn Abbas – and do yourself a favour’. Ibn Abbas said to him, ‘So are you prohibiting us from reciting the Quran? ’ He (Muawiya) said, ‘No’. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘So are you preventing us from its interpretation? ’ He (Muawiya) said, ‘Yes’. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘So we should recite it and not ask what Allah-azwj has Meant by it? ’ He (Muawiya) said, ‘Yes’. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘So what is more obligatory upon us, it’s recitation or to act by it? ’ Muawiya said, ‘The acting in accordance with it’. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘So how can we act by it until we know what Allah-azwj has Meant by what He-azwj Sent down to us? ’ He (Muawiya) said, ‘Ask the one who will explain it differently to what you and the People-asws of your household explain it’. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘But, the Quran was Revealed upon the People-asws of my Household, and I should ask about it from the progeny of Abu Sufyan, or ask about it from the progeny of Ma’eet, or the Jews and the Christians and the Magians? ’ Muawiya said to him, ‘You have equated me with them’. (Ibn Abbas said), ‘By my life, I have not equated you with them, apart from the fact that you are prohibiting us that we should worship Allah-azwj by the Quran and by what is in it from the Orders, and Preventions, or Permissible(s), or Prohibitions, or Abrogation, or Abrogated, or General, or Special, or Decisive, or Allegorical, and if the community does not ask about that it will perish and differ and follow desires. Muawiya said, ‘So recite the Quran and its explanation, and do not narrate anything from what Allah-azwj has Revealed about you all, from its interpretation, and what the Rasool-Allah-saww has said regarding you all, and narrate whatsoever except for that’, Ibn Abbas said, ‘Allah-azwj has said in the Quran: They are intending to extinguish the Light of Allah with their mouths, and Allah Refused except that He would Complete His Light, and even though the Kafirs dislike it [9: 32]. Muawiya said, ‘O Ibn Abbas, restrain yourself and restrain your tongue from me, and