Hadith 331

It is reported by Nasr, from Umar Bin Sa’ad, and Muhammad Bin Ubeydullah who both said, ‘Muawiya wrote to Amro, ‘As for after, it has transpired from the matter of Ali-asws and Talha and Al-Zubeyr what has reached you, and Marwan Bin Al-Hakam has blundered to us regarding the rejectors (Al-Rafiza) of the people of Al-Basra, and Jareer Bin Abdullah came arrived regarding allegiance of Ali-asws, and I have withheld myself upon you, until you come to me, I shall accept matters you remind’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When the letter was read out to Amro, he consulted his two sons Abdullah and Muhammad and said, ‘What are you view? ’ Abdullah said, ‘I view that the Prophet-saww of Allah-azwj passed away and he-saww was pleased from you, and so were the two caliphs from after him-saww, and Usman is killed, and you were absent from it, so stay in your house, for the caliph isn’t unknown, and you do not want to become a re-enforcement for Muawiya upon a little of the world which would no doubt be destroyed and you would be cursed in it’. And Muhammad said, ‘I view that you are an elder of Quraysh and master of its affairs and will never cut off this command and you are inactive in it, reducing your command. Join up with a group of the people of Syria and become a hand from its hand, and seek the blood of Usman, for you have already submitted in it to the clan of Umayya’. Amro said, ‘As for you, O Abdullah, are instructing me with what is better for me regarding my religion, and as for you, O Muhammad, are instructing me with what is better for me in my world, and I shall look into it’. When the night shielded, he raised his voice prosing couplets regarding that, repeating these. Abdullah said, ‘The old man is wandering’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Amro called a slave of his called Wardan, and he was a shrewd giant. He said, ‘Depart, O Wardan! ’ Then he said, ‘Unload, O Wardan! ’ Wardan said to him, ‘You are mixed-up Abu Abdullah! But you, if you like I can inform you with what is within yourself’. He said, ‘Give, woe be unto you! ’
He said, ‘The world and the Hereafter are fighting upon your heart, so