Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

ما بال هذا المر في أقل قريش قلة وأذلها ذل ‏)يعني أبا بكر(‏ والله لئن شئت لمألنها عليه خيال ورجال
Why is this matter in the least of the Quraysh in number and the most
insignificant of them in status (referring to Abū Bakr)? By Allah if you want
I will fill Madīnah with horses and men against him. 1
He then said:
أبا حسن،‏ ابسط يدك حتى أبايعك
Spread your hand so that I may pledge my allegiance.
But ʿAlī I refused. 2
Furthermore, here we have before us all the books of history which,
despite the divergent leanings of its writers and their disparate
tendencies, have documented a plethora of details regarding the rulers of
the Banū Umayyah, their gatherings, and their personal lives. But not one
of them has reported any report which suggests that any of them would
eulogise any of his forefathers who were killed in Badr or elsewhere, let
alone displaying grief upon what befell them, with the exception of what
is narrated regarding Yazīd (which we will discuss in the pages to come,
Allah willing).
What makes the matter even clearer is that:
ʿAlī did not exclusively kill some of the disbelievers, 3 rather there were
many Muslims who killed with him. So why would he alone be made a
victim of hatred, to the exclusion of everyone else who was involved,
when the ‘crime’ is one?
1 Mustadrak Ḥākim: chapter regarding knowing the Ṣaḥābah: sub-chapter regarding Abū Bakr ibn Abī
Quḥāfah: ḥadīth no. 4462. Al-Dhahabī has deemed the narration authentic in Tārīkh al-Khulafāʾ p. 68.
2 Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī 2/237; Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 7/457.
3 See al-Fiṣal fī al-Milal wa al-Niḥal 4/82 to discover the amount of people ʿAlī I killed from the
Quraysh.
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