Hadith 335

Nasr said, ‘And Muawiya had come to Jareer in his house before that and said, ‘O Jareer! I have viewed a view’. He said, ‘Give! ’ He said, ‘I shall write to your Master-asws to make Syria to be for me, and the levy of Egypt. So, when the expiry presents to him-asws, he-asws would not make it to be for anyone after him-asws, any allegiance in my neck, and I shall submit this command to him-asws, and write the caliphate to be for him-asws’. Jareer said, ‘Write with whatever you want, and I shall write with you’. So, Muawiya wrote with that to Ali-asws. Ali-asws wrote to Jareer: ‘As for After, Muawiya rather wants that there should not be in his neck any allegiance for me-asws, and that he would choose from his affairs whatever he like, and wants to inherit you until the people of Syria taste’. And Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba had consulted Ali-asws, ‘Employ Muawiya to be upon Syria, and I shall be at Al-Medina’, but he-asws refused that to him: ‘and I would not Take the strayers for support [18: 51], so either the man pledges to you or else come back’. And he-asws publicised the letter of Muawiya among the Arabs’’. [16]