Hadith 333

Nasr said, ‘And in a Hadeeth of other than Umar, he said, ‘Muawiya said to him, ‘O Abu Abdullah! I dislike that the Arabs might discuss that you rather entered into this matter for the purpose of the world’. He said, ‘Leave me from you’. Muawiya said, ‘I, if I so desired to make you feel safe and deceive you, can do so’. Amro said, ‘No, by the Command of Allah-azwj! The likes of me cannot be deceived, and because I am cleverer than that’. Muawiya said to him, ‘Come near me with your head, I shall divulge a secret to you’. Amro went near him so he would divulge his secret, but Muawiya bit his ear and said, ‘This is a deception. Do you see anyone in the house apart from me and you? ’
Then he returned the speech to the Hadeeth of Umar. Muawiya said, ‘O Abu Abdullah! Don’t you know that Egypt is like Al-Iraq? ’ He said, ‘Yes, but rather it happens to be for me when it used to be for you, and rather it happens to be for you when Ali-asws overcomes upon Al-Iraq’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Utba Bin Abu Sufyan entered to see him and he said, ‘Are you not pleased with buying Amro with Egypt, it is cleaner for you, just in case you do not overcome upon Syria’. Muawiya said, ‘O Utbah! Spend the night in our presence’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When the night shielded upon Utbah, he raised his voice for Muawiya to hear the couplets urging him in these upon pleasing Amro. When Muawiya heard that he sent a message to Amro and he gave it to him. He (the narrator) said, ‘Amro said, ‘And for me is Allah-azwj as a Witness upon you with that’. Muawiya said to him, ‘Yes, Allah-azwj is upon me with that for you, if Allah-azwj Grants victory upon us of Al-Kufa’. Amro said, ‘And Allah-azwj is a Guarantor upon what you are saying’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Amro went out from his presence. His two sons said to him, ‘What have you done? ’ He said, ‘He gave us Egypt’. They said, ‘And what is Egypt in the kingdom of t