Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-2330b
"عَن أَبِى عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ: كَتَبَ مُعاوِيَةُ إِلَى عَلِىَّ بْنِ أَبِى طَالِبٍ، يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ: إِنَّ لِى فَضَائِلَ كَثِيرَةً وَكَانَ أَبِى سَيَّدًا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، وَصِرْتُ مَلِكًا فِى الإِسْلَامِ، وَأَنَا صِهْرُ رسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَخالُ المُؤمِنِينَ، وَكَاتِبُ الْوَحْىِ، فَقَالَ عَلِىٌّ: أَبِالْفَضَائِلِ تَفْخَرُ عَلىَّ ابْنَ آكِلَة الأَكْبَادِ ثُمَّ قَالَ: اكْتُبْ يَا غُلامُ: مُحَمَّدٌ النَّبَّيُّ أَخِى وَصِهْرِى... وَحَمْزَةُ سَيِّدُ الشُّهَدَاءِ عَمِّىِ وَجَعْفَرُ الَّذِى يُمْسِى ويضْحِى... يَطِيرُ مَعَ المَلَائكَةِ ابْنُ أُمِّى وَبنْتُ مُحَمَّدٍ سَكَنِى وَعِرْسِىِ... مسوطٌ لَحْمُها بِدَمِى وَلَحْمِى وَسبْطَا أَحْمَدَ وَلَدَاىَ مِنْهَا... فَأَيُّكُمْ لَهُ سَهْمٌ كسَهْمى سَبَقْتُكُمُ إِلَى الإِسْلَامِ طُرّا... صَغِيرًا مَا بَلَغْتُ أَوَانَ حُلْمِى فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: اخْفُوا هَذَا الْكِتَابَ لَا يَقْرَؤُهُ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ فيَمِيلُونَ إِلَى ابْنِ أَبِى طَالِبٍ"
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abiá ʿUbaydah
- Katab Muʿāwiyah
- ʿAli b. Abiá Ṭālib Yā Abū al-Ḥasan In Liá Faḍāʾil Kathīrah and Kān Abiá Sayyad Fī
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Abu 'Ubaydah who said: Mu'awiyah wrote to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib: O Abu al-Hasan, indeed I have many virtues. My father was a chief in the Jahiliyyah, I became a king in Islam, I am the in-law of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, the maternal uncle of the believers, and the scribe of the revelation. 'Ali said: Do you boast of virtues over me, son of the liver-eater? Then he said: Write, O boy: Muhammad the Prophet is my brother and my in-law... and Hamzah, the master of the martyrs, is my uncle, and Ja'far, who flies with the angels, is my maternal brother... and the daughter of Muhammad is my dwelling and my wife, whose flesh is mixed with my blood and my flesh, and the two grandsons of Ahmad are my sons from her... so which of you has a share like mine? I preceded you to Islam entirely, while still a child before I reached the age of puberty. Mu'awiyah said: Hide this letter, so that the people of Syria do not read it and incline toward the son of Abu Talib."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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