He replied the people of Hejaz, the people of Basra then the people of Kufa.

He replied the people of Hejaz, the people of Basra then the people of Kufa. He was then asked 'What of the people of Syria?' He replied by opening his hand, 'when it comes to the people of Syria they narrate traditions with open hands". The people of Syria find it hard to listen to hadith praising 'Ali. Here it's proven that the Syrians of the time were a population comprised of criminals and men who would naturally be on the payroll of the khalifa Yazeed as Damascus…