والعباس متوافران على النظر في أمره فنادى : بني هاشم : لا تطمعوا الناس فيكم ولا سيما تيم بن مرة أو عدي فما الأمر إلا فيكم وإليكم وليس لها إلا أبو حسن علي أبا حسن فاشدد بها كف حازم فإنك بالأمر الذي ترتجي ملي ثم نادى بأعلى صوته : يا بني هاشم يا بني عبد مناف ، أرضيتم أن يلي عليكم أبو فصيل الرذل بن الرذل !

and al-'Abbas were wholly given to attending to his affair; and he called out: O Banu Hashim, do not make the people covetous towards you, and least of all Taym b. Murra or 'Adi; for the affair is only among you and to you, and none has a claim to it but Abu Hasan. — O 'Ali, Abu Hasan, grasp it with a resolute hand; for you are equal to the affair that is hoped for. — Then he called out at the top of his voice: O Banu Hashim, O Banu 'Abd Manaf, are you content that there should rule over you the father of a camel-calf, the base son of the base?

أما والله لو شئتم لأملأنها عليهم خيلا ورجلا ، فناداه أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام : إرجع يا أبا سفيان فوالله ما تريد الله بما تقول وما زلت تكيد الإسلام وأهله ونحن مشاغيل برسول الله ( ص ) وعلى كل امرئ ما اكتسب وهو ولي ما احتقب 2 .

By God, had you wished, I would have filled it against them with horse and foot. And the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, called out to him: Turn back, Abu Sufyan. By God, you do not intend God by what you say; you have never ceased plotting against Islam and its people. We are occupied with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his Family; and upon every man is what he has earned, and he is the master of what he has gathered to himself. [2]

فانصرف أبو سفيان إلى المسجد ، فوجد بني أمية مجتمعين فيه ، فحرضهم على الأمر ولم ينهضوا له ، وكانت فتنة عمت ، وبلية شملت ، وأسباب سوء اتفقت ، تمكن بها الشيطان وتعاون فيها أهل الإفك والعدوان ، فتخاذل في إنكارها أهل الإيمان ، وكان ذلك تأويل قول الله عز وجل * ( واتقوا فتنة لا تصيبن الذين ظلموا منكم خاصة ) * 3 4 .

So Abu Sufyan turned away to the mosque and found the Banu Umayya gathered in it, and he incited them to the affair, but they did not rise to it. It was a sedition that spread wide and an affliction that encompassed all; evil causes coincided, by which Satan gained his foothold and the people of falsehood and enmity aided one another in it, so that the people of faith fell short in denouncing it. And that was the interpretation of the word of God, mighty and exalted: “And beware of a trial that will not afflict only those of you who do wrong.” [3] [4]