Hadith No: 2
Al-Hakim al-Nisapuri - Al-Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn
Book of the Knowledge of the Companions - Mentioning Some Virtues of Ali (RA)
Volume: (3) - Page Number: (108)
4632 - Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn Ya'qub narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Qazzaz narrated to us, saying: Ubaydullah ibn Abdulmajid al-Hanafi narrated to us, and Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Qit'i informed me, saying: Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to me, from my father, saying: Abu Bakr al-Hanafi narrated to us, from Bakir ibn Musmar, who said: I heard Amiru ibn Sa'd say: Muawiya said to Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (RA): What prevents you from reviling the son of Abi Talib? He replied: I will not revile him because you mentioned three things that Rasulullah (SAW) said to him. To have one of them be mine is more beloved to me than red camels. Muawiya said to him: What are they, O Abu Ishaq? He replied: I will not revile him because you mentioned when revelation descended upon him, and he took Ali, his two sons, and Fatima, and brought them under his cloak, then said: My Lord, these are my Ahl al-Bayt. And I will not revile him because you mentioned when he left him in the expedition of Tabuk, which Rasulullah (SAW) undertook. Ali said to him: You have left me with the children and the women. He replied: Will you not be pleased to be in relation to me as Harun was to Musa, except that there is no prophethood after me? And I will not revile him because you mentioned on the day of Khaybar
when Rasulullah (SAW) said: I will give this banner to a man who loves Allah and His Messenger, and Allah will open through his hands. We were all eager for Rasulullah (SAW) to hand it to us, and he said: Where is Ali? They said: He has sore eyes. He said: Call him. So they called him, and he spat in his face, then gave him the banner, and Allah opened through him. Then, by Allah, Muawiya did not mention him with a word until he left the city. This is a sound hadith on the criteria of the two shaykhs, and they did not narrate it in this wording, although both of them agreed to narrate the hadith of mutual brotherhood and the hadith of the banner.