Whenever he spoke...

Whenever he spoke, he spoke the truth, which shook the foundations of the government. In short, Abu Dharr was leading his life at Rabzah with his family in extremely straitened circumstances. There was no sympathizer there. But those honest men who had loved and reverence for him in their hearts used to go to see him. According to the historian Waqidi, Abul Aswal Duayli says: "I wished with all my heart to visit Abu Dharr and ask him why he was turned out.

Therefore, I went to him at Rabzah and asked him if he had come out of Medina of his own free will or he had been forcibly expelled. "He said, "Brother! How to tell you that when I was sent to Syria I thought that I had gone to a place which was an important place of the Muslims. I was happy there but I was not allowed to stay there and was called back to Medina.

When I reached there I consoled myself with the idea that was the place to which I had migrated and where I had received the honour of companionship of the Holy Prophet. But, alas, I was turned out of that place also and now I am where you see". After that he said, "O Abul Aswad! Listen to me. I was sleeping in the Prophet's masjid one day. By chance the Holy Prophet came in. He woke me up and said, "O Abu Dharr!

Why are you sleeping in the masjid?" Abu Dharr: The sleep overwhelmed me and suddenly I went to sleep. The Prophet: Tell me what you will do when you are turned out of this masjid? Abu Dharr: I will go to Syria then, because signs of Islam are found there. It is also a place of Jihad. The Prophet: What will you do when you are turned out of that place also? Abu Dharr: I will draw my sword at that time and will behead the man who turns me out. The Prophet: I give a far better advice to you.

Abu Dharr: What is that advice? The Prophet: You should let yourself be dragged when you are dragged, and that you should accept what is told to you, and should not fight. O Abul Aswad! According to the Prophet's advice I listened to them and accepted what they said. I still listen to them to accept what they say. By Allah, He will take revenge on Uthman for what he has done to me and he will be proved the worst sinner in my case when he reaches in the court of Allah"[^2].

The narrators of this authentic tradition are highly reliable and trustworthy as written by Allamah Amini in his book "al-Ghadir". Somebody asked Abu Dharr during his stay at Rabzah, "O Abu Dharr! Do you have any wealth?" He said, "My wealth is my deeds".