him and his family, was pleased with him and was displeased with you and your father. I adjure you before Allah, O Mu’awiya, did you remember the day when your father came riding a red camel that you drove, and your brother ‘Utba led? Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, saw you and said: ‘O Allah, curse the rider, the leader, and the driver!’ Did you, O Mu’awiya, forget the poetry you wrote to your father when he intended to be a Muslim and prohibit him from that? (You said:)
‘O Sakhr, do not be Muslim one day lest you should expose us after those who were torn at (the Battle of) Badr.
(They were) my maternal uncle, paternal uncle, granduncle, the third of them, and Hanzal of good who gifted us with sleeplessness…’
“By Allah what you have concealed from among your affair is greater than what you have manifested. I adjure you before Allah, O people, did you know that Ali abstained from pleasures among the companions of Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family? So it has been revealed regarding him: O you who believe, do not forbid (yourself) the good things which Allah has made lawful.[1] And that Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, sent the leading companions to Bani Qurayza. They approached their stronghold and were defeated. So he sent Ali with the standard, and he made them follow Allah’s judgment and that of His Apostle, and he did the like at Khaybar.
“O Mu’awiya, I think that you do not know that I know what Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, said about you when he wanted to write a letter to Bani Khuzayma. He sent for you, and you did not come to him. So he invoked (Allah) against you with ‘O Allah,’ until you die.
“And you, O people, I adjure you before Allah, did you not know that Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, cursed Abu Sufyan in seven places that you cannot refute:
“Firstly, when he met Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, who was going out of Mecca to al-Ta’if to summon Thaqif to the religion. He (Abu Sufyan) attacked, cursed, stultified, abused, accused him of lying, and intended to assault him (the Prophet). So Allah and His Apostle cursed him and then the Prophet (a.s) went away.
“Secondly, on the day of the train of beasts of burden(youm al-‘eer) when Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, interfered with them
------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Qur’an, 5, 87.