Have you not paid allegiance (to me)...

Have you not paid allegiance (to me), and Allah -azwj did not delight that your -ra eyes to see it go to your -ra companion -asws (Ali -asws )?’ فقلت: أشهد أني قد قرأت في بعض كتب الله المنزلة: (إنك – باسمك ونسبك وصفتك – باب من أبواب جهنم) فقالوا لي: قل ما شئت، أليس قد أزالها الله عن أهل هذا البيت الذين اتخذتموهم أربابا من دون الله ؟ I -ra said, ‘I -ra testify that I -ra have read in some Books of Allah -azwj Sent down that you, with your name and your lineage and your characteristics are (inscribed) on a Door from the Doors of Hell’.

He said to me -ra , ‘Say what you like. Hasn’t Allah -azwj Declined it from the People -asws of this Household whom you -ra have taken as lords besides Allah -azwj ?’ فقلت له: أشهد أني سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يقول، وسألته عن هذه الاية: (فيومئذ لا يعذب عذابه أحد ولا يوثق وثاقه أحد)، فأخبرني بأنك أنت هو.

فقال عمر: أسكت، أسكت الله نامتك، أيها العبد، يابن اللخناء I -ra said to him, ‘I -ra bear witness that I -ra have heard Rasool-Allah -saww say, and I -ra asked him -saww about this Verse: So, on that Day, no one will Punish (like) His Punishment [89:25] And no one will bind (like) His Binding [89:26] , he -saww informed me -ra that it means you’. Umar said, ‘Silence, silence! may Allah -azwj Make you sleep (die), O slave, O son of the evil-tongued’.

فقال علي عليه السلام: أقسمت عليك يا سلمان لما سكت Then Ali -asws said: ‘I -asws give you -ra a vow, O Salman -ra , keep quiet’. فقال سلمان: والله لو لم يأمرني علي عليه السلام بالسكوت لخبرته بكل شيئ نزل فيه، وكل شيئ سمعته من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله فيه وفي صاحبه.

فلما رأني عمر قد سكت قال لي: إنك له لمطيع مسلم Salman -ra said, ‘By Allah -azwj , had Ali -asws not ordered me -ra to keep quiet, I -ra would have informed him of everything that had Come down regarding him, and everything that I -ra have heard from the Rasool-Allah -saww regarding him and his companion’. When Umar saw me -ra that I -ra have observed silence, he said to me -ra , ‘You -ra are an obedient submitter to him -asws ’.