Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

(32565) [*] Abu Muawiyah narrated to us from Al-A’mash from Yazid Al-Raqashi from Anas who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Visions have nicknames, and they have names, so give them their nicknames and interpret them by their names, and the vision is for the first interpreter."

Hazrat Abu Musa (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that Mughira bin Shu’bah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that you should appoint those two men, i.e., Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) and Talha (may Allah be pleased with him), as governors of Kufa and Basra, and appoint Hazrat Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) as governor of Syria; in this way, they will be pleased with you. Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) replied, “I am not one to do a lowly act in my religion.” The narrator says that later Hazrat Mughira (may Allah be pleased with him) met Hazrat Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), so Hazrat Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him, “Are you the one who said that?” He replied, “Yes!” He said, “By Allah, no one but Allah could save from the evil of that statement.”