Al-Fasawī said: Ḥajjāj ibn Abī Manīʿ narrated to us—my grandfather narrated to us—from al-Zuhrī, from Anas, who said:
“Three men from Iraq pledged together to kill Muʿāwiyah, ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, and Ḥabīb ibn Maslamah. After allegiance had been sworn to Muʿāwiyah as caliph, they travelled until they reached Īliyāʾ (Jerusalem). In the pre-dawn darkness they prayed in the mosque. When Muʿāwiyah came out for the dawn prayer and pronounced the opening takbīr, one of the three flung himself onto the back of a prostrating guard who stood between him and Muʿāwiyah and managed to stab Muʿāwiyah in the hip. Muʿāwiyah withdrew and said, ‘Complete your prayer.’ The man was seized. The physician said, ‘If the dagger was not poisoned, you have nothing to fear.’ The physician then prepared his medicines, licked the dagger, found no trace of poison, uttered the takbīr, and those with him likewise proclaimed the takbīr. It was said, ‘The Commander of the Believers is unharmed.’ (1)

I say: This incident is different from the occasion on which he was wounded at the time ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—was killed, for on that earlier day the blow split his buttock, and medicines were administered that saved him from the poison, but his line of offspring was cut off. (2)

Ayyūb ibn Jābir narrated—from Abū Isḥāq—from al-Aswad:
I said to ʿĀʾishah, ‘Are you not astonished that a man from among the ṭulaqāʾ (those pardoned at the Conquest) should dispute the Caliphate with the Companions of Muhammad?’ She replied, ‘And what is there to astonish you? It is the dominion of Allah; He grants it to the righteous and to the wicked alike. Pharaoh ruled Egypt for four hundred years.’ (3)

Zayd ibn Abī al-Zarqāʾ narrated—from Jaʿfar ibn Burqān (4), from Yazīd (5) ibn al-Aṣamm,