Volume 6, Book 60, Number 188:
Narrated Ibn Abi Mulaika:
We entered upon Ibn ‘Abbas and he said “Are you not astonished at Ibn Az-Zubair’s assuming the
caliphate?” I said (to myself), “I will support him and speak of his good traits as I did not do even for
Abu Bakr and ‘Umar though they were more entitled to receive al I good than he was.” I said “He (i.e
Ibn Az-Zubair) is the son of the aunt of the Prophet and the son of AzZubair, and the grandson of
Abu Bakr and the son of Khadija’s brother, and the son of ‘Aisha’s sister.” Nevertheless, he considers
himself to be superior to me and does not want me to be one of his friends. So I said, “I never expec –
ted that he would refuse my offer to support him, and I don’t think he intends to do me any good,
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therefore, if my cousins should inevitably be my rulers, it will be better for me to be ruled by them
than by some others.”