Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40104 — Those who disliked going out during

It is narrated from Huzayl bin Shurahbil that he said: Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed the people and said: "O people! You have come and pledged allegiance to me willingly. Had you pledged allegiance to an ear-cropped Abyssinian slave, I would have come and pledged allegiance to him along with you." When he came down from the pulpit, Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "Do you know what you have done today? You have said that you people pledged allegiance to me willingly, and that had they pledged allegiance to an ear-cropped Abyssinian slave, you would have come and pledged allegiance to him along with them." He regretted it, returned to the pulpit and said: "O people! Was anyone more deserving of this matter (the caliphate) than I? And is anyone more deserving of it than I?" The narrator said: Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) was seated there. The narrator related that Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "I intended to say: The one more deserving of this matter than you is he who struck you and your father for Islam. Then I feared that these words of mine would cause corruption, and I remembered what Allah has prepared in Paradise, and so what I wanted to say (refraining from it) became easy for me."