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people would mention in their gatherings considering it to be Dīn without any
hesitation. One of these things was aversion toward ʿAlī I.
Hence al-Junayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān 1 I narrates:
دخلت على حوران آخذ عطائي،‏ فصليت الجمعة،‏ ثم خرجت إلى باب الدرج فإذا عليه شيخ يقال له:‏ أبو
شيبة القاص يقص على الناس،‏ فرغب فرغبنا وخوف فبكينا.‏ فلما انقضى حديثه قال:‏ اختموا مجلسنا بلعن
أبي تراب،‏ فلعنوا أبا تراب!‏ فالتفت عن يميني فقلت ومن أبو تراب فقال:‏ علي بن أبي طالب.‏
I went to Ḥawrān 2 to collect my bonus. I read Jumuʿah and then came out
to the door by the stairs. Upon it was seated a man who was known as
Abū Shaybah, the story teller, 3 who would narrate tales to the people. He
motivated us and we felt motivated and he made us fear and we cried.
When his conversation was over he said, “Culminate your gathering with
reviling Abū Turāb,” and everyone thus cursed Abū Turāb. So I turned to
my right and asked, “Who is Abū Turāb?” He said, “ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.” 4
The Eighth Cause: Love for the World
People have been created with inherent love for this world and inclination
toward its various attractions. A person is not condemned for loving the world
as long as it does not dominate his conscience and become the deciding factor
in all his activities, thereby making him oblivious of all his obligations and the
1 Al-Junayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Murrī al-Ghaṭafānī. A generous and prominent leader.
Originally from Damascus. Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik appointed him as the governor of Sindh and
Khorasan in 113 A.H. However, he was not praiseworthy in his battles and thus was dismissed in 115
A.H. A year later he passed away due to an ailment he contracted in his stomach. See: Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī
4/153; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 11/322; al-Wāfī bi al-Wafayāt 11/158; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/312.
2 Ḥawrān: A very vast town and one of the suburbs of Damascus which has lots of villages and
orchards. See: Muʿjam al-Buldān 2/317; Muʿjam ma Ustuʿjim 1/474.
3 I have not come across his biography in the books I have at my disposal. However, he lived during
the era of the Khalīfah Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik and participated in the Jihād in the lands of Syria. See: Tārīkh
Madīnah Dimashq 11/290; Bughyah al-Ṭalab fī Tārīkh Ḥalab 10/4485.
4 See the entire story in Tārīkh Dimashq 11/290; Akhbār wa Ḥikāyāt of al-Ghassānī p. 52.
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