And why are you advancing him?’ I said, ‘Because the Prophet -saww had advanced their best on and placed their most superior in charge, and all the people were pleased with him’.
قَالَ يَا أَبَا الْهُذَيْلِ هَاهُنَا وَقَعْتَ أَمَّا قَوْلُكَ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص قَالَ قَدِّمُوا خَيْرَكُمْ وَ وَلُّوا أَفْضَلَكُمْ فَإِنِّي أُوجِدُكَ أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ صَعِدَ الْمِنْبَرَ وَ قَالَ وُلِّيتُكُمْ وَ لَسْتُ بِخَيْرِكُمْ فَإِنْ كَانُوا كَذَبُوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَدْ خَالَفُوا أَمْرَ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ إِنْ كَانَ هُوَ الْكَاذِبَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ فَمِنْبَرُ النَّبِيِّ ص لَا يَصْعَدُهُ الْكَاذِبُونَ- He said, ‘O Abu Al Huzeyl! Over here is a pitfall.
As for your word that the Prophet -saww had said: ‘Advance your best one and place your superior to be in charge’, so I can find for you that Abu Bakr had ascended the pulpit and said, ‘I am in charge of you all and I am not your best one’. If they have belied upon him, then they have opposed the order of the Prophet -saww . And if he had lied upon himself, then the pulpit of the Prophet -saww , the liars cannot ascend it.
وَ أَمَّا قَوْلُكَ إِنَّ النَّاسَ تَرَاضَوْا بِهِ فَإِنَّ أَكْثَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ قَالُوا مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْكُمْ أَمِيرٌ وَ أَمَّا الْمُهَاجِرُونَ فَإِنَّ زُبَيْرَ الْعَوَّامِ قَالَ لَا أُبَايِعُ إِلَّا عَلِيّاً فَأُمِرَ بِهِ فَكُسِرَ سَيْفُهُ وَ جَاءَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ بْنُ حَرْبٍ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ إِنْ شِئْتَ لَأَمْلَأَنَّهَا خَيْلًا وَ رِجَالًا يَعْنِي الْمَدِينَةَ And as for your words, ‘The people were pleased with him’, surely most of the Helpers had said, ‘There should be a commander from us and a commander from you’.
And as for the Emigrants, Zubeyr Bin Al-Awwam had said, ‘I will not pledge allegiance except to Ali -asws !’ So he was ordered with, and his sword was broken. And Abu Sufyan Bin Harb came and said, ‘O Abu Al-Hassan -asws ! If you -asws so desire, I can fill it with cavalries and infantries’ – meaning Al-Medina.
وَ خَرَجَ سَلْمَانُ فَقَالَ كردند و نكردند و ندانند كه چه كردند وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَهَؤُلَاءِ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ And Salman -ra went out and said, ‘ Kardand wa nakardand wa nadanand Keh Chi Kardand ’ (in Persian – ‘They did and did not do, and they did not know what to do’). And Al-Miqdad -ra and Abu Zarr -ra , they -ra are the Emigrants.