Hadith 344

And in a Hadeeth of Muhammad Bin Ubeydullah, from Al Jarjany who said, ‘When Ubeydullah Bin Umar arrived to Muawiya at Syria, Muawiya sent a message to Amro Bin Al-Aas. He said, ‘O Amro! Allah-azwj has Revived Umar Bin Al-Khattab for you at Syria by the arrival of Ubeydullah Bin Umar, and I have viewed that I should make him stand to testify against Ali-asws with the killing of Usman, and gain support from it’. He said, ‘The view is what you have viewed’. He sent a message to him, so he came to him. He said to him, ‘O son of a brother! For you is the name of your father. So, look with your full eyes and speak with all in your, for you are considered as reliable, the verifier. Climb upon the pulpit and revile Ali-asws and testify against him that he-asws killed Usman’. He said, ‘O amir Al-momineen! As for my reviling him-asws, he-asws is Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and his-asws mother-asws is (Syeda) Fatima-asws Bint Asad Bin Hashim-as. What can I say regarding his-asws lineage? And as for his-asws prowess, so he-asws is the brave hammer, and as for his-asws days, it is what you have recognise, but bind (muddle) him-asws with the blood of Usman’. Amro said, ‘Then by Allah-azwj, you have reduced the ulcer’. When Ubeydullah went out, Muawiya said, ‘By Allah-azwj! If only he had not killed Al-Hurmuzan and feared Ali-asws upon himself, he would not have come to us, ever! Did you not see him eulogising (praising) Ali-asws? ’
When Ubeydullah stood up to address, he spoke with his need until when he came to the matter of Ali-asws, he withheld. So, Muawiya reproached him and he excused, ‘I disliked to cut the testimony upon a man who did not kill Usman, and I do recognise that the people carry it from me’. Muawiya deserted him and underestimated his rights until he prosed a poem in praise of Usman and the correctness of Talha and Al-Zubeyr. It pleased him and he drew him near and said, ‘This suffices me from you’’. [25]