Hazrat Amir, may Allah have mercy on him, says that a man came to Hazrat Muawiyah, may Allah be pleased with him, and said, "O Commander of the Faithful! Fulfill the promise you made to me." He, may Allah be pleased with him, asked, "What promise did I make to you?" The man said, "You promised that you would increase my stipend by one hundred dirhams." He said, "Did you do any work?" The man replied, "Yes!" He asked, "Who knows about this?" The man said, "Aswad," or he said, "Ibn al-Aswad." He said, "O Ibn al-Aswad, what does he say?" He replied, "Yes, O Commander of the Faithful, you had increased his stipend." He ordered that the increase be given. Then he struck one hand on the other and said, "I do not grieve over the fact that I ordered an increase of one hundred dirhams for a man, but I regret my own negligence that I increased the stipend of one of the Muhajireen by one hundred dirhams and then forgot about them." Upon this, Ibn al-Aswad said, "O Commander of the Faithful! Will he be fearless regarding these dirhams?" He replied, "Yes!" He said, "By Allah, you did not increase anything for him, but whoever invites me to testify for him regarding money he receives from a chief, I testify for him. Likewise, whoever asks me to testify for him regarding the removal of some harm he fears from a person of status, I testify for him."

Hazrat Wahb bin Kaysan (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I heard Hazrat Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) saying that in the year of unity, Hazrat Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) sent Hazrat Busr bin Artat (may Allah have mercy on him) to Madinah Munawwarah so that he could take allegiance from the people of Madinah according to their banners and tribes. So, on the day when it was the turn for the Ansar to come to him, the Banu Salamah came to him. He asked, "Is Hazrat Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) among these people?" The people replied, "No." He said, "Go back, I will not take allegiance from them until Hazrat Jabir is among them." Hazrat Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that those people came to me and said, "We beseech you in the name of Allah to come with us and pledge allegiance so that your and our blood may be protected, because if you do not do so, our fighting men will be killed and our children will be taken captive." Hazrat Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that I asked them for respite until the night. When night fell, I went to Hazrat Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم , and told her the whole matter. She said, "O my nephew! Go and pledge allegiance and protect your and your people’s blood, for I have also ordered my nephew to pledge allegiance."

It is narrated from Wahb bin Kaysan that when allegiance was pledged to Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him), a man from Iraq wrote a letter to him: "Peace be upon you! I praise Allah before you, besides whom there is no deity. To proceed! There are some signs of Allah's obedient servants and people of goodness by which they are recognized, and these things are seen in them: enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and obeying Allah. And know that the example of the Imam is like that of a marketplace, in which people come according to the kind of things that are in it. If he is a person of goodness, then good people come to him, and if he is wicked, then wicked and immoral people come to him with their wickedness and immorality."

Hazrat Saeed bin Wahb (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that I was with Hazrat Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him). It was said to him that Mukhtar claims that revelation comes to him. He replied, "He has spoken the truth," then he recited these verses: { ہَلْ أُنَبِّئُکُمْ عَلَی مَنْ تَنَزَّلُ الشَّیَاطِینُ تَنَزَّلُ عَلَی کُلِّ أَفَّاکٍ أَثِیمٍ }.

Hazrat Shamar narrates the statement of Hazrat Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that first there will be many kings, then there will be tyrant rulers, then rebellious sovereigns will come.

Hazrat Abu Nadrah states that it was narrated among us that the people of such-and-such tribe would face the severest bloodshed. Accordingly, when this happened, four men from among them fled towards Rome and incited the Romans to attack the Muslims.

Hazrat Salim (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that when people were being made to pledge allegiance to Yazid bin Muawiyah, Marwan stood up and said that this is the exemplary way of Hazrat Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him). Hazrat Abdur Rahman bin Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) stood up and said that this is not the way of Hazrat Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), for he had left his own family and tribe, and when he saw a man from Banu Adi bin Ka'b who was most deserving of this task, he pledged allegiance at his hand.

Hazrat Aamir (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates the statement of Hazrat Muhammad bin Ash'ath (may Allah have mercy on him) that everything prevails in turn, to the extent that even foolishness sometimes prevails over wisdom.

It is narrated from Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) dismissed Hazrat Shurahbil bin Hasnah (may Allah be pleased with him), he said, "O Umar (may Allah be pleased with you)! Have you dismissed me due to any displeasure?" He replied, "No, but we have found a man stronger than you." Hazrat Shurahbil (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "Then excuse me." So Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) stood on the pulpit and said, "We had appointed Shurahbil bin Hasnah as an official, then we dismissed him without any displeasure, the reason being that we found someone stronger than him. We feared Allah Almighty that we might keep him in his position while we have found someone stronger than him." After this, Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saw in the evening that he (Shurahbil) was going to the official who had been appointed, and Hazrat Shurahbil (may Allah be pleased with him) was sitting with his hands folded alone. He (Umar) said, "The world is indeed despicable."

Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, the scribe, says that Hazrat Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, used to say that the rectification of this matter can be achieved through strictness but without coercion, and through gentleness but without weakness.