Hadith 35

y sound of the beaks, picking upon the army with its gill and turning it away to its gizzard and it lands it its throat’. Muawiya said, ‘By Allah-azwj! Like that is Malik Bin Al-Haris Bin Al-Ashtar Al-Nakhaie’. Then he said, ‘Return with safety from me’. And in another report, ‘Take the wealth and the letter and leave! May Allah-azwj Recompense you goodly on behalf of your master-asws’. Al-Tirmah took the letter, and carried the wealth, and went out from his presence, and rode his animal and travelled. Then Muawiya turned to his companions and said, ‘Even if I were to give the entirety of what I own to a man from you, he would not deliver from me tenth of a tenth of what this Bedouin has delivered about his master-asws’. Amro Bin Al-Aas said, ‘If there was kinship for you like the kinship of Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and the truth (right) was with you just and it is with him-asws, we would deliver from you better than that, double, multiple’. Muawiya said, ‘May Allah-azwj Break your mouth and Cut your lips! By Allah-azwj! You talk is severer upon me than the talk of the Bedouin, and the world is straitened upon me in its entirety’’. [141]
I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is copied from the handwriting of the martyr, he said, ‘Muawiya said to Abu Al-Muraqie Al-Hamdany, ‘Revile Ali-asws! ’ He said, ‘But I revile one who reviles him-asws and oppresses him-asws’. He said, ‘Is he-asws your master-asws? ’ He said, ‘And your master-asws, if you were from the Muslims’. He said, ‘Then supplicated against him-asws’. He said, ‘But I supplicate against the one who is below him-asws’. He said, ‘What are you saying regarding one who kills him-asws’. He said, ‘He would be in the Fire along with the one who is happy with that’. He said, ‘Who are your people’. He said, ‘Al-Zurq from Hamdan, those who engaged you on the day of Siffeen’’. [142]
And from his handwriting as well, he said, ‘It is reported by Abu Umar Al Zahid in the book ‘Fa’it Al Jamhour’, ‘A man asked Muawiya on the day of Siffeen about an issue. He said to him, ‘Ask Ali-asws, for he-asws is more learned than me’. The man said to him, ‘You answer is more beloved to me than his-asws answer’. He said to him, ‘I have disliked a man I saw Rasool-Allah-saww coating him-asws with the knowledge with a coating, and I had seen Umar, whenever the thing was doubtful upon him, he said, ‘Over there is Abu Al-Hassan-asws! ’ Stand, may Allah-azwj not Let your legs to stand, and delete his-asws name from the register’. Ibn Abbas said, ‘I was seated in the presence of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and the man came to us, and his news had already preceded to us. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I have come to you-asws trustworthy’. He-asws said to him: ‘You are master of the speech. You introduced to Muawiya who I-asws am, so how did you view the answer of a hypocrite, ‘Stand, May Allah-azwj not Let your legs to stand! ’’ He remained wavering’’. [143]