Volume 9, Book 88, Number 226:
Narrated Harmala:
(Usama’s Maula) Usama (bin Zaid) sent me to ‘Ali (at Kufa) and said, “‘Ali will ask you, ‘What has
prevented your companion from joining me?’ You then should say to him, ‘If you (‘Ali) were in the
mouth of a lion, I would like to be with you, but in this matter I won’t take any part.’ ” Harmala ad –
ded: “‘Ali didn’t give me anything (when I conveyed the message to him) so I went to Hasan, Hussain
and Ibn Ja’far and they loaded my camels with much (wealth).”