Hadith 22

And when Ali-asws was pledged allegiance to, Khuzeyma Bin Sabit prosed a poem saying, ‘When we pledged allegiance to Ali-asws, we reckoned Abu Hassan-asws to be from what we had feared from the Fitna. We found him-asws to be the foremost of the people with the people. He is the best of Quraysh with the Book and the Sunnah. And the Quraysh could not cut through its dust, when was flowed on a day was upon a body wasted away. In him-asws is that which is in them, from the good, all of it, and it is not in them the like of that which is in him-asws, from the good deeds. A successor-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww from besides his-saww family, and his-saww horseman who had been in the past time period, and the first one to pray Salaat from the people, all of them, besides the best of the women, and Allah-azwj is with the Conferment. And an owner of the ram of the people during every event, happen to be for it the brave soul along with the intellect, and owner of the fingers which praise his-asws name. Their Imam-asws, until I disappear in the shroud’’. And Abu Al-Abbas Ahmad Bin Atiya said (in a poem), ‘I saw Ali-asws as better than the ones treading the pebbles, and the most honourable creatures of Allah-azwj from after Ahmad-saww. Successor-asws of the Chosen Rasool-saww and son-asws of his-saww uncle-as, and his-saww famous horseman during every event. The Choice of the Beneficent from the best family, clean of birth and of good birth. When we pledged to Ali-asws, we reckoned his-asws allegiance as being after the Prophet Muhammad-saww’’. From Al Moalla Bin Khunays, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws: ‘The day in which Amir Al-Momineen-asws was pledged allegiance to secondly, was the day of Al-Neyrouz’’. [22]