Abu Mijlaz narrates: Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him): Sayyiduna Imam Hasan bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) is a man of weak opinion, and he has a particular stance. We know his stance; we will speak on that subject, and then he will have nothing left to say. Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Do not do this! But they did not accept what Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said. Then Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) climbed the pulpit, mentioned Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and criticised him. Then Sayyiduna al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah (may Allah be pleased with him) climbed the pulpit, praised and glorified Allah Almighty, and criticised Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Imam Hasan bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) was told: Climb the pulpit. He said: I will not climb (the pulpit), nor will I speak, until you agree with me that if I say what is true you will affirm it, and if I say what is false you will reject it. The people agreed this with him. He climbed the pulpit, praised and glorified Allah Almighty, and then said: O Amr and O Mughirah! I ask you both by Allah: do you both know that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah Almighty curse the one driving and the one riding," and that one of the two was so-and-so? Both of them replied: By Allah, yes, it is so. Sayyiduna Imam Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Mu'awiyah and O Mughirah! I ask you by Allah: do you both know that the Messenger of Allah cursed Amr (bin al-As) with a curse for every line of verse he composed? Both of them replied: By Allah, yes. Sayyiduna Imam Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Amr, I ask you by Allah, and I ask you too, O Mu'awiyah bin Abi Sufyan: do you both know that the Messenger of Allah cursed this man's people? Both of them replied: Yes. Then Sayyiduna Imam Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I praise Allah that the one you criticised is free of this (that the Messenger of Allah should have cursed him). The narrator says: After this he mentioned the full narration.
Al-Tabarani recorded it from his teacher Zakariyya bin Yahya al-Saji. Al-Dhahabi says: He is one of the reliable narrators; I know of no criticism of him at all. Ibn al-Qattan says: There is disagreement about this man in hadith; some declared him thiqah (trustworthy) and others called him da'if (weak). The rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الفتن - أعاذنا الله منها / 12075
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ حسن
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الطبراني فى المعجم الكبير (2698)»