Hadith 11

Al Shahaz, from Sa’ad, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Al Haysam, from Ali Bin Al Husayn Al Fazary, from Adam Al Tammar Al Hazramy, from Abu Tareyf, from Ibn Nubata who said, ‘I went to Amir Al-Momineen-asws in order to greet him-asws, so I sat down awaiting him-asws. He-asws came out to me, so I stood up to him-asws and greeted unto him-asws. He-asws struck upon my-asws palm, then intertwined his-asws fingers in my fingers, then said: ‘O Asbagh Bin Nubata! ’ I said, ‘At your-asws service and assistance, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! ’
He-asws said: ‘Our-asws friend is a friend of Allah-azwj. So, when a friend of Allah-azwj dies, he would be for Allah-azwj to (Keep him) the lofty friends, and He-azwj would Quench him from a river colder than the ice, and sweeter than the honey, and softer than the butter’. I said, ‘May my father and my mother (be sacrificed for you-asws)! And even if he was a sinner? ’
He-asws said: ‘Yes, and even if he was a sinner. Have you not read the Quran: so those ones, Allah would Replace their evil deeds with good deeds, and Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful [25: 70]? O Asbagh! Our-asws friend, even if he were to meet Allah-azwj and upon him were sins like the foam of the sea, and like the number of grains of sand, Allah-azwj will Forgive these for him, if Allah-azwj the Exalted so Desires’’. [15]
(The book) ‘Rijal Al Kashi’ – Muhammad Bin Qawlawiya, and Al Husayn Bin Hassan Bin Bundar Al Qumiyan, from Sa’ad, from Al Khashab, from Al Yaqteeny, from Ibn Asbat, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah-asws saying: ‘There were five persons from Quraysh with Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and there were thirteen tribes with Muawiya. As for the five, these were Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him. The excellence came to him from the direction of his mother Asma Bint Umays. And with him-asws were Hashim Bin Utbah Bin Abu Waqas Al-Mirqal. And with him-asws was Ja’dah Bin Hubeyra Al Makhzumi, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws was his maternal uncle-asws, and he is the one Utbah Bin Abu Sufyan had said to him, ‘But rather for you is this intensity during the war from the direction of your maternal uncle-asws’. Ja’dah said to him, ‘If there was for you a maternal uncle like my maternal uncle-as, you would forget your father’. And Muhammad Bin Abu Huzeyfa Bin Utbah Bin Rabie. And the fifth was an in-law of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ibn Abu Al-Aas Bin Rabie, and he is an in-law of the Prophet-saww, and he is Abu Rabie’’. [16]