Hadith 35

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I found the report in the handwriting of one of the distinguished ones with difference what obligates repeating it upon this aspect as well. He said, ‘The Sheykh Al Adeeb Abu Bakr Bin Abdul Aziz Al Busty said with the correct chains, ‘When Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws returned from the event (battle) of the camel, Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan wrote to him-asws, ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. From a servant of Allah-azwj and son of a servant of Allah-azwj, Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan, to Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. As for after, you-asws pursued what harmed you-asws and left what benefited you-asws, and opposed the Book of Allah-azwj and Sunnah of His-azwj Rasool-saww, and it has ended to me what you have done with the two disciples of Rasool-Allah-saww, Talha and Al-Zubeyr and mother of believers Ayesha. By Allah-azwj! I shall shoot at you with such a shooting star, neither will the water extinguish it nor will the wind will shake it. When it falls, it will puncture, and when it punctures it will make a hole, and when it makes a hole, there will be a cavity, and when there is a cavity, it will inflame. So, do not be deceived by the armies and prepare for the war for I will meet you-asws with armies, not said for you-asws with it (before). And the greetings’. When the letter arrived to Amir Al-Momineen-asws, he-asws opened it and read it, and called for ink and paper, and wrote in it: ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. From a servant of Allah-azwj, and son of His-azwj servant, Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, brother-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww, and son-asws of his-saww uncle-as, and his-saww successor-asws, and his-saww washer, and his-asws enshrouder, and fulfiller of his-saww debts, and husband of his-saww daughter-asws the chaste, and father of his-saww two grandsons-asws Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, to Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan. As for after, I-asws annihilated your people on the day of Badr, and killed your paternal uncle, and your maternal uncle, and your grandfather, and the sword which I-asws had killed them with is with me-asws. My-asws forearm is carrying it along with steadfastness from my-asws chest, and strength of my-asws body, and Help from my-asws Lord-azwj, just as the Prophet-saww had made it to be in my-asws palm. By Allah-azwj! I-asws have not chosen any lord over Allah-azwj, nor any religion over, nor any prophet over Muhammad-saww, nor any replacement upon the sword. So, be serious from your view and struggle, and do not fall short for the Satan-la has engaged upon you, and the ignorance and the tyranny are provoking you, And they shall come to know, those who are being unjust, which overturning they would be Overturned with [26: 227], and fear the bad consequences’. Then he-asws folded the letter and sealed it, and he-asws called a man from his-asws companions called Al-Tirmah Bin Aday Bin Hat