Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Meaning of the Words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, ‘The Residents and Nonresidents Are the Same’ ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أَبِي الْعَلاءِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠ُعَاوِيَةَ أَوَّلُ ٠َنْ عَلَّقَ عَلَى بَابِهِ ٠َنَعَ حَاجَّ بَيْتِ الله ٠َا قَالَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ سَواءً الْعاكِفُ فِيهِ وَالْبادِ وَكَانَ النَّاسُ إِذَا قَدِ٠َكَّةَ نَزَلَ الْبَادِي عَلَى الْحَاضِرِ حَتَّى يَقْضِيَ حَجَّهُ وَكَانَ ٠ُعَاوِيَةُ صَاحِبَ السِّلْسِلَةِ الَّتِي قَالَ الله تَعَالَى فِي سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُها سَبْعُونَ ذِراعاً فَاسْلُكُوهُ إِنَّهُ كانَ لا يُؤْ٠ِنُ بِالله الْعَظِي٠ِ وَكَانَ فِرْعَوْنَ هَذِهِ الأُ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from al-Husayn ibn abu al-‘Ala’ who has said the following: “Abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Mu‘awiyah was the first person who built door-jambs for his house in Makkah and prevented the pilgrims to the House of Allah to use it, against the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, ‘Both resident and nonresident have equal right to use it.’ (22:24) The people arriving in Makkah, who were not residents, would stay with residents until the end of Hajj season.

Mu‘awiyah was the person of the chains about which Allah, the most Blessed, the most High, has said, ‘With the chain which is seventy yards long, (you must) chain him; He did not believe in Allah, the Great.’ (69:31-32) He was the pharaoh of this nation.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/107))