Hadith 44

(The books) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ (and) ‘Al Irshad’ –
‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said when the people of Syria raised the Quran, and a party from his-asws companions doubted, and they resorted to pacifism and called to it: ‘Woe be unto you all! This is a deception, and the people are not intending the Quran, because they aren’t people of the Quran! Therefore, fear Allah-azwj and go ahead upon your insights in your fighting. If you do not do so, the ways would be separated with you, and you will regret when the regret will be of no benefit’’. [159]
And it is reported by Ibn Mardawayh, by his chain from Suweyd Bin Aqalah having said, ‘I was with Abu Musa at the banks of the Euphrates. He said, ‘I heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying that the children of Israel differed and they did not stop differing between them until they sent two strayed ones, straying the ones who followed them, and their affairs are not disguised upon you. You differed until you sent two strayed judges, straying the ones who followed them’. Suweyd said, ‘I said, ‘I seek your Protection with Allah-azwj from you becoming one of the two’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He (Abu Musa) removed his shirt and said, ‘May Allah-azwj Keep me away from that just has He-azwj has Cleared me from my shirt’. And when ‘Laylat Al-Hareer’ occurred, they shouted, ‘O Muawiya! The Arabs are destroyed! ’ He said, ‘O Amro! Should we flee or seek amnesty? ’ He said, ‘Let us raise the Qurans upon the spears and recite: Have you not seen those who are given a portion of the Book? They are invited to the Book of Allah that it might decide between them, then a group of them turn back and they withdraw [3: 23]. So, if they were to accept the Judgment of the Quran, we shall raise the war and raise with them to a (specified) term, and if some of them refuse except the fighting, we shall break their force and the sects would occur between them’. And he (Muawiya) ordered with the caller and he shouted among them, ‘Neither we nor you are from the Polytheists, nor are we gathered upon the apostasy! If you were to accept it, then survival is in it for the two parties and for the cities, and if you were to repel it, then the annihilation is in it, and every affliction is to a term! ’
Mis’ar Bin Madaky, and Zayd Bin Huseyn Al-Taie, and Al-Ash’as Bin Qays Al-Kindy said, ‘Answer the people to the Book of Allah-azwj’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Woe be unto you, by Allah-azwj, they have not raised the Quran except as a deception and a plot when you were higher than them’. And Khalid Bin Ma’mar Al-Sadousy said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! The most beloved of the affairs to us is what suffices us of its livelihood’. And Rifa’at Bin Shaddad Al-Bajaly prosed, ‘If they were to judge with the justice, there would be safety, or else we have just preferred