2394 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad related to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar informed us; he said: ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb narrated to us; he said: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us; he said: Mālik ibn Mighwal, on the authority of al-Shaʿbī, said: “Had I wished, they would have filled this very house with gold and silver on condition that I forge something against ʿAlī—they would certainly have done so. He also used to say, ‘If the Shia were birds, they would be vultures; and if they were beasts, they would be donkeys.’”