Chapter Five: The Neutrality of Some of the Companions of the Imam (AS).

Encyclopedia of Imam Ali (AS), written by Muhammad Muhammadi Rayshahri, abridged by Mahdi Gholamali, translated by Zaid Alsalami and Safyullah Khan, edited by Hamid Reza Salarkia and published by NORPUB.

أ ـ جَريرُ بنُ عَبدِ اللّهِ البَجَلِيُّ

Jarir ibn Abdullah al-Bajali

502. تاريخ الطبري :

502. Tarikh al-Tabari, relates:

خَرَجَ جَريرُ بنُ عَبدِ اللّهِ إلى قَرقيسِياءَ وكَتَبَ إلى مُعاوِيَةَ ،

“Jarir ibn Abdullah went forth to Qarqisiya and wrote to Muawiyah,

فَكَتَبَ إلَيهِ يَأمُرُهُ بِالقدُومِ عَلَيهِ .

so he replied, commanding him to come to him.”

تاريخ الطبري : ج4 ص562 .

Tarikh al-Tabari, vol. 4, p. 562

ب ـ أبو عَبدِ الرَّحمنِ السُّلَمِيُّ

Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami

503. الغارات عن عطاء بن السائب :

503. Al-Gharat, reporting from Ata ibn al-Sa’ib, who said:

قالَ رَجُلٌ لِأَبي عَبدِ الرَّحمنِ السُّلَمِيِّ :

“A man said to Abi Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami,

اُنشِدُكَ بِاللّهِ تُخبِرُني ،

‘I adjure you by God to inform me:

فَلَمّا أكَّدَ عَلَيهِ قالَ :

 

بِاللّهِ هَل أبغَضتَ عَلِيّا إلّا يَومَ قَسَّمَ المالَ في أهلِ الكوفَةِ

By God, did you hate Ali only when he divided the money amongst the people of Kufah,

فَلَم يُصِبكَ ولا أهلَ بَيتِكَ مِنهُ شَيءٌ ؟

but nothing of it reached you or your family?’

قال : أمّا إذا أنشَدتَني بِاللّهِ فَلَقَد كانَ ذلِكَ .

He said: ‘Since you have adjured me by God, indeed it was true.’ ”

الغارات : ج2 ص567 .

 Al-Gharat, vol. 2, p. 567.