251. Sahl, from Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan, from Muhammad Bin Hafs Al-Tamimi who said: Abu Ja’far Al-Khath'ami narrated to me saying: ‘When Uthman exiled Abu Dharr to Al-Rabadha, Amir-ul-Mu'minin , and Aqil , and al-Hasan , and Al-Husayn , and Ammar Bin Yasser bid farewell to him. So when they were inside the valley, Amir-ul-Mu'minin said; ‘O Abu Dharr! You were angry for the Sake of Allah, so have hope from His Anger. The people feared you for their world whilst you feared upon your Religion, so they exiled you from (that which is) doomed and tested you by the affliction. And, by Allah, if the skies and the earth are (forced) to closed-up on a servant, then Allah would (surely) Open up a way out for him. Let nothing comfort you except for the truth, and let nothing scare you except for the falsehood’. Then Aqil spoke saying, ‘O Abu Dharr! You know that we love you, and we know that you love us, and you have preserved with regards to us what the people have wasted except for a few. So your Reward is upon Allah, and it is for that that they have thrown you out as the castaway and made you travel in the exile. So your Reward is upon Allah Mighty and Majestic. So fear Allah and know that you should resign to the affliction from the anxiety and your deterioration of the health from the despair. So leave the resignation and the despair and say, ‘Allah is Sufficient for me and the best advocate’. Then Al-Hasan spoke saying: ‘O uncle! The people have meted out to you what you have seen, and Allah is Watching from High above. So leave the memories of the world by remembrance of its separation and the difficulties, by what will be coming to you of the ease after it, and be patient until you meet your Prophet ﷺ, and he will be pleased with you, Allah Willing’. Then Al-Husayn spoke saying: ‘O uncle! Allah Blessed and High has the Power to Change what you see, and every day He is in (a State of) Glory. The people have denied you their world, and you have denied them your Religion. So what is your need from what they have denied you, and they are in greatest need for what you have denied them. So it is for you to observe patience, for the goodness is in the patience, and the patience is from the generosity. And leave the anxiety, for the anxiety provides no refuge’. Then Ammar spoke saying, ‘O Abu Dharr! May Allah Make lonely the one who made you to be lonely, and Frighten the one who (tried to) frightened you. By Allah! Nothing prevents the people from speaking the truth except their reliance upon the world and the love for it. But rather, the obedience is with the group and the kingdom is for the one who overcomes it, and this group of people have called the people to their world, so they responded to them for it and bestowed their Religion upon them. Thus, they incurred the loss of the world and the Hereafter, and that is what is the clear loss’. Then Abu Dharr spoke saying, ‘Peace be upon you all, and the Mercy of Allah and His Blessings! May my father and my mother (be sacrificed for you all). These are the faces, when I see them, I remember the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. And what is there for me in Al-Medina to dwell in apart from you. And it became heavy upon Uthman to let me (live) in the neighborhood of Al-Medina just as it became heavy upon Mu'awiya in Syria. He (Uthman) decided that he would exile me to a town, so I said it should be Al-Kufa. So he feared that I would spoil the relationship of his brother with the people in Al-Kufa. By Allah He is sending me to a place in which I will neither see any human being nor hear a humming sound. By Allah! I do not want anyone except Allah as a companion, and what is the loneliness for me when Allah is with me. Allah is Sufficient for me. There is no god except for Him. Upon Him do I rely and He is the Lord of the Magnificent Throne, and greetings of Allah be upon our Chief Muhammad ﷺ and his purified Progeny.'"