Ibn Tawus reported to me from Ikrima bin Khalid, from Ibn Umar, who said, I went in to see Hafsa while the locks of her hair were dripping with water. I said, "The affair of the people has come to what you can see, and I have been given no part in this matter."She said, "Go and join them, for they are waiting for you, and I fear that your staying away from them will cause division." She did not leave him alone until he went.When the people had dispersed, Muawiya gave a sermon and said, "Whoever wishes to speak about this matter, let him show us his horn, for surely we have more right to it than him and than his father."Habib bin Maslama said, "Why did you not answer him?"Abdullah replied, "I loosened my wrap and was about to say, 'More entitled to this affair than you is the one who fought you and your father over Islam.' But I feared that I would utter a word that would split the gathered community, cause bloodshed, and be reported from me in a distorted form. So I remembered what Allah has prepared in the Gardens."Habib said, "You were guarded and protected."Mahmud reported it from Abdul-Razzaq with the wording "nuwasatuha" (the locks of her hair).
حدثني إبراهيم بن موسى أخبرنا هشام عن معمر عن الزهري عن سالم
وأخبرني ابن طاوس عن عكرمة بن خالد عن ابن عمر قال 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 قال حبيب حفظت وعصمت قال محمود عن عبد الرزاق ونوساتها