بیشترتوضیحاتافزودن یادداشت جدید Yathrib is available. Be sure. Do you think I will prefer you to myself?" Aqil 155 stood up and said: "This means that you will put me and the black ones of Medina on the same level, does it not?" The Imam (a) asked him to sit down, and said, "You have no preference to the black ones of Medina except by means of a virtue in Islam or piety." 156
The following narration in recorded by Ibn Hagar in his book titled 'As-Sawaaiq ul-Muhriqa' page 79:
(Ibn Asakir narrated that) Aqil asked Amir ul-Mu'minin (a) to give him some money because he was poor. The Imam told him to wait until his share of the public treasury would come out. As Aqil insisted, the Imam asked a man to take Aqil to the market and lead him to the locks of the stores so that he would unlock and take from them. "Do you want me to be thief?" asked Aqil. The Imam (a) said: "And do you want me to be thief as you ask me to give you the shares of Muslims?" Aqil then threatened he would join Muawiya.
As soon as Aqil asked him, Muawiya gave him one hundred thousand dirhams and asked him to take the mimbar and tell people his story with his brother.
Aqil ascended the mimbar and said: "People, when I tried to make Ali give up his religion, he refused and preferred his religion to me. But when I asked Muawiya to prefer me to his religion, he did." 157
Ibn Abbas narrated the following:
I, once, visited Amir ul-Mu'minin (a) and found him repairing one of his old slippers. As he finished, he added it to the other and asked me to evaluate. "It is valueless," I answered. As he insisted, I said: "They may be half a dirham." He (a) commented: "By Allah I swear, these slippers are favorable for me to my leadership to you unless I constitute the right or reject the wrong." 158
On another occasion, Imam Ali (a) said: "By Allah, I