Hadith 138

led it correctly, and duties of taking care of and protecting them, and Muawiya recognised that so he wrote to him, ‘As for after, surely you are deceived by a fortress you are sheltering to it at night just as the bird does to its nest, and I swear by Allah-azwj, had it not been for my waiting for you what Allah-azwj Knows of, there would have been for you from me what the righteous servant had said: and we will come to them with armies they will not be able to face, and we will expel them from it in disgrace, and they would be belittled! ’ [27: 37]. And he wrote at the bottom of his letter, a poem of its summary, ‘Forget your father and his grace has been crippled, when address the people and the ruler of theirs is Umar’. When the letter arrived to Ziyad, he stood to address the people and said, ‘The strangeness from the son of the liver-eater and the head of hypocrisy. He is threatening me while between me and him is a son-asws of an uncle-as of Rasool-Allah-saww, and husband-asws of chieftess-asws of women of the worlds, and father-asws of the two grandsons-asws, and bearer of the flag, and the master of the loyalty (Wilayah), and the status, and the brother-hood among one hundred thousand from the Emigrants and the Helpers and the followers of theirs with the good deeds. But, by Allah-azwj! Even if all of them were to be aggressive to me, they would find me frightening, striking with the sword! ’
Then he wrote to Ali-asws and the letter of Muawiya along with his letter. Ali-asws wrote to him: ‘As for after, I-asws have placed you in charge of what I-asws placed you in charge of, and I-asws see you being a rightful of that; and a slip had happened from Abu Sufyan during the days of Umar from the lost aspirations and the self-lying, neither will you obligate any inheritance by it and you cannot deserve any lineage by it. And surely Muawiya is like the Pelted Satan-la. He comes to the person from his front, and from his back, and from his right, and from his left, so be cautious of him, then (again) be cautious of him. And the greetings’’. [39]
He said, ‘And it is reported by Abu Ja’far Muhammad Bin Habeeb who said, ‘Ali-asws had placed Ziyad in charge of a piece (of land) from the administration of Persia, and he-asws had authorised it himself. When Ali-asws was killed, Ziyad remained in his office and Muawiya feared his side and was fearful from his inclination towards Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws, so he wrote a letter to him, threatening him, and promising him, and calling him to his allegiance. Ziyad answered him with a harsh letter from him. Muawiya consulted Al-Mugheira Bin Shuba regarding that, an