Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32621 — Reports on talk about rulers

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) sent me as a messenger to Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) on the day of the Battle of the Camel. I said to them both: "Your brother sends you greetings of peace and says to you: Are you displeased with me for doing injustice in the judgment of some matter, or for taking possession of some spoils for myself, or over such and such a matter?" He said: Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "It is none of these things. Rather, it is a kind of fear with which an intense kind of greed has combined."