Hadith 22

on the Helpers with our-asws rights and our-asws arguments. Quraysh made them rulers, one after one until it (caliphate) returned to us-asws. Then they broke our-asws allegiance and installed the war to us-asws, and the Master-asws of the command did not cease to be in ups and downs until he-asws was killed. Then his-asws son-asws Al-Hassan-asws was pledged to and pacted. Then they were treacherous with him-asws, and he-asws submitted, and the people of Al-Iraq pounced upon him-asws until he‑asws was stabbed in his-asws side, and his-asws soldiers were ransacked, and the bangles of the mothers of his-asws children were looted. So, he-asws gave it to Muawiya and saved his-asws blood and blood of his-asws family, and they were few, really few. Then twenty thousand from the people of Al-Iraq pledged to Al-Husayn-asws, then they were treacherous with him-asws and came out against him-asws while his-asws allegiance was in their necks. They killed him-asws. Then the People-asws of the Household did not cease to be humiliated and lowered, and neglected, and abused, and deprived, and killed, and terrorised, and there was not safety upon our-asws blood and the blood of our-asws friends. And liars, the rejecters found a place for their lies, and their rejections they could draw closer to their friends and the evil judgment, and evil deeds in every city. They narrated to them with the Ahadeeth of falsified subjects, and they reported from us-asws what we-asws did not say and had not done, in order for us-asws to be hated by the people. And the mightiest of that and its biggest was the era of Muawiya after the passing away of Al-Hassan-asws. Our-asws Shias were killed in every city, and the hands and legs were amputated based upon the conjectures. And it was so that the one who mentioned our-asws love and cut off to come to us-asws, was imprisoned, or his wealth was looted, or his house would be demolished. Then the affliction did not cease to intensify and increase up to the era of Ubeydullah Bin Ziyad, killer of Al-Husayn-asws. Then came Al-Hajjaj. He killed them with every killing, and seized them with every conjecture and false accusation, to the extent that the man, if it was said to him that he was an atheist, or Kafir, it was more beloved to him than for him to be called Shia of Ali-asws. And to the extent that the man who was being mentioned with goodness, and perhaps he happened to be pious, truthful, he would narrate Ahadeeth which were grievous, strange, of the merits of the rulers who had passed away, and Allah-azwj had not Created anything from these, nor did it ever happen, nor occurred, and he was reckoning that these were true due to the frequency of the ones who had reported it, from the ones who were not known to be with the lies, nor with scarcity of piety’’. [48]