Hadith 145

Ibn Abu Al Hadeed in commentary of Al Nahj (Al Balagah) – It is reported by Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Saqafi in Kitab Al Gharat, and the event what he reported in the original of his book, reporting by his chain from Al Kalby, ‘Muhammad Bin Huzeyfa, he is the one who incited the Egyptians upon the killing of Usman and delegated them to it, and in those days, he was in Egypt. When they came to Usman and besieged him, he (himself) being in Egypt, leapt upon the office bearers of Usman upon it, and he is Abdullah Bin Sa’ad Bin Abu Sarh. He exiled him from it and prayed Salat with the people. Ibn Abu Sarh went out from Egypt and he descended at the fringes of the land of Egypt from what follows Palestine, and he waited what would happen from the matter of Usman. When the news of his killing arrived to him, he joined with Muawiya, and Ali-asws place Qays Bin Sa’ad Bin Ubada in charge of Egypt and said to him: ‘Go to Egypt, for I-asws have placed you in charge of it, and go out to outside of the city and gather your trustworthy ones and the ones you love to accompany you until you come to Egypt and for you is an army, for that would be an awe to your enemies and mighty for your friends. When you arrive to it, if Allah-azwj so Desires, then be good to the good doer and severe upon the dubious, and be kind with the general Muslims and the special (Shias), for the kindness is a conferment’. Qays said, ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you-asws, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I have understood what you-asws mentioned. As for the army, I shall call it for you. When I argue to them, they would be near to you, and if you-asws want to send them to a direction from your-asws directions, they would be a (numerous) number for you. I shall travel to Egypt with myself and my family. And as for what you-asws advised me with, from the kindness and the goodness, so Allah-azwj the Exalted, He-azwj is the Helper upon that’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Qays went out among seven persons from his family until he entered Egypt. He ascended the pulpit and he instructed that the letter which was with him should be read out to the people, in it was: ‘From a servant of Allah-azwj Ali-asws Amir Al-Momineen, to the one from the Muslims my-asws letter reaches. Greeting be unto you all! I-asws praise Allah-azwj to you, Who, there is no god except He-azwj. As for after, surely Allah-azwj, by His-azwj Good dealing, and His-azwj Power, and His-azwj Management Chose as a religion for Himself-azwj and His-azwj Angels, and His-azwj Rasools-as, and He-azwj Sent His-azwj Prophets-as to His-azwj servants with it. It was from what Allah-azwj had Honoured this community and Specialised them with from the Grace is that He-azwj Sent Muhammad-saww to them. He-saww taught them the Book, and the Wisdom, and the Sunnah, and the Obligations, and educated them perha