Hadith 35

a Guardian of the one who increases’. He said, ‘Give him twenty! ’ Al Tirmah said, ‘I shall make it a single, for Allah-azwj the Exalted, He-azwj is the Individual, and Loves the individual’. He said, ‘Give him thirty thousand! ’
Al-Tirmah deliberated his insight to his intention, and delayed to him for a while. He said, ‘O king! Are you mocking with me upon your throne? ’ He said, ‘What is that for, O Bedouin? ’ He said, ‘You ordered with the award for me, neither have I seen it nor have you seen it, so it is at the status of the wind which blows from the mountain’. The wealth was presented and placed in front of Al-Tirmah. When he took possession of the wealth, he was silent and did not speak with anything. Amro Bin Al-Aas said, ‘O Bedouin! How do you view the award of commander of the faithful? ’ The Bedouin said, ‘This is wealth of the Muslims from the treasury of Lord-azwj of the worlds. A servant from righteous servants of Allah-azwj has taken it’. Muawiya turned to his scribe and said, ‘Write its answer, for by Allah-azwj, the world has been darkened upon me, and there is no strength for me’. The scribe took the paper and wrote, ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. From a servant of Allah-azwj and son of His-azwj servant Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan, to Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. As for after, I am diverting to you-asws an army from the armies of Syria. Its vanguard is at Al-Kufa, and its rear-guard is at the cost of the sea. And I shall cast you-asws down with a thousand loads of mustard, beneath each mustard would be a thousand fighter. So, either you-asws extinguish the fire of Fitna and submit to us the killers of Usman or else do not say that the son of Abu Sufyan exaggerated, nor let you-asws bravery of the people of Al-Iraq deceive you, nor their harmony, for their harmony is hypocrisy. Their example is like an example of the braying donkey swaying with every croaker (caller). And the greetings’’. When Al-Tirmah looked at what had emerged beneath his pen, he said, ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj! I don’t know which of you is more a liar, you with your claim or your scribe in what he has written. If the people of the east and the west, from the Jinn and the humans, were to gather, they would not be able upon that’. Muawiya looked and said, ‘By Allah-azwj! He has written from other than my instructions! ’ He said, ‘If you did not instruct it, so he has weakened you, and if had instructed him, he has exposed you’. Or he said, ‘If he has written from himself, so he has betrayed you, and if you had instructed him with that, then you are both treacherous, liars in the world and the Hereafter’. The Al-Tirmah said, ‘O Muawiya! Are you thinking of threatening the ducks in the pond? Leave your threats, for your threat is not harmful. Can the buzzing of wings of the fly do any harm? By Allah-azwj! For Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws there is a rooster upon the might