I came in upon Hafsa while her locks were still dripping with water. I said, "The affair of the people has come to what you see, yet nothing of the leadership has been given to me."She said, "Go join them, for they are waiting for you, and I fear that your holding back from them will cause division." She kept urging him until he went.When the people had gathered, Muawiya gave a sermon and said, "Whoever wishes to speak concerning this matter, let him raise his head and show himself to us, for we have more right to it than he and his father."Habib bin Maslama said, "Why did you not answer him?"Abdullah said, "I loosened my garment from around my knees and was about to say, 'More entitled to this matter than you is the one who fought you and your father over Islam.' But I feared that I might utter a word that would split the gathering, cause bloodshed, and be reported from me other than as I intended, so I remembered what Allah has prepared in the Gardens."
دخلت على حفصة ونسواتها تنطف، قلت: قد كان من أمر الناس ما ترين، فلم يجعل لي من الأمر شيء، فقالت: الحق فإنهم ينتظرونك، وأخشى أن يكون في احتباسك عنهم فرقة، فلم تدعه حتى ذهب، فلما تفرق الناس، خطب معاوية، قال: من كان يريد أن يتكلم في هذا الأمر فليطلع لنا قرنه، فلنحن أحق به منه ومن أبيه، قال حبيب بن مسلمة: فهلا أجبته؟ قال عبد الله: فحللت حبوتي، وهممت أن أقول: أحق بهذا الأمر منك من قاتلك وأباك على الإسلام، فخشيت أن أقول كلمة تفرق بين الجمع، وتسفك الدم، ويحمل عني غير ذلك، فذكرت ما أعد الله في الجنان.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Maghazi (4108) from Ibrahim bin Musa, [who said] Hisham told us, from Maamar, from Zuhri, from Salim, from Ibn Umar, who said, and then he related it [as previously mentioned].His saying, "nasawatiha," contains a metathesis, and the correct form is "nawasatiha," meaning her locks of hair. The meaning of "tantuf" is that it drips, as though she has just bathed.His saying, "There has been such matters among the people as you see," by this he means what took place between Ali and Muawiya in the fighting at Siffin.His saying, "So I undid my hibwa," the hibwa is a garment thrown over the back, with its two ends tied around the legs after they have been drawn together.His saying, "the one who fought you and your father over Islam," his father is Abu Sufyan bin Harb, who was the leader of the confederates on the day of the Trench.As for what was narrated from Abu Hurairah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "There will be a deaf, dumb, blind tribulation. Whoever exposes himself to it, it will expose itself to him, and the tongue's exposure in it is like the falling of the sword," its chain of transmission is daif. Abu Dawud narrated it (4264) via Yahya bin Saeed, who said, Khalid bin Abu Imran said, from Abdul-Rahman bin Baylamani, from Abdul-Rahman bin Hurmuz, from Abu Hurairah, and he related it. Abdul-Rahman bin Baylamani is daif. It has also been narrated from him by another route.Ibn Majah narrated it (3968) via Muhammad bin Harith, from Muhammad bin Abdul-Rahman bin Baylamani, from his father, from Ibn Umar, as a raised report with the wording, "Beware of tribulations, for the tongue in them is like the falling of the sword." Muhammad bin Harith is al-Harithi, who is daif, and Muhammad bin Abdul-Rahman bin Baylamani is unreliable in hadith, having been accused of fabrication by both Ibn Adi and Ibn Hibban, and his father is daif as well.Likewise, what was narrated from Abdullah bin Amr is not sound, that he said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "There will be a tribulation that will sweep away the Arabs entirely, its slain will be in the Fire, and the tongue in it will be more severe than the falling of the sword." Abu Dawud narrated it (4265), as did Tirmidhi (2178), Ibn Majah (3967), and Ahmad (6980), all of them via Layth, from Tawus, from Ziyad bin Simin Kush, from Abdullah bin Amr, and he related it.Tirmidhi said, "This is an isolated hadith. I heard Muhammad bin Ismail say, Nothing is known from Ziyad bin Simin Kush except this hadith. Hammad bin Salama narrated it from Layth and raised it to the Prophet, while Hammad bin Zayd narrated it from Layth and left it as a stopped report."I say, that is what he stated. But Abu Dawud narrated it via Hammad bin Zayd, from Layth, and raised it to the Prophet. So it appears that there was disagreement over Hammad bin Zayd, both in raising it and in stopping it. The crux of both versions, the raised and the stopped, rests upon Layth and Ziyad. Layth is Ibn Abu Salim, who is weak in memory, and Ziyad bin Simin Kush is obscure. Ibn Hajar gave a detailed account of him in the biography of Ziyad bin Sulaym in Tahdhib.