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Chapter 113 of 1482 min read
سيرة علي بن أبي طالب — الجزء 113
'Ali, in this particular sequence and with such precision, makes the reader doubt because it is not known who knew about the contents of these letters and who transmitted them.80 Dr. Yahya al-Yahya said: "The fact that Qays ibn Sa'd ibn 'Ubidah (&) was appointed as governor of Egypt by Amir alMu'mineen 'Ali ibn Abi T&b (&) is something upon which there is con~ensus."~' No biography of Qays failed to mention these details.82 In other words, what Abu Makhnaf mentioned in this report was not even mentioned by the respectable historians of ~ g y ~ t , ' ~ although the report of Abu Makhnaf was narrated from at-Tabari in snmmarised form by Ibn al-Atheer, Ibn Katheer, Ibn Khaldoon and Ibn ~ a ~ h a r r i b a r d i . ~ ~ Al-Kindi also nanated that 'Abdul-Kareem ibn al-H%rith said: "When Mu'iwiyah got womed about Qays being in Egypt, he wrote to some of Banu Umayyah in Madinah saying: 'May Allah reward Qays ibn Sa'd with good, but conceal'it, for 1 am afraid that 'Ali may dismiss him if he hears of the relationship between him and us.' When 'Ali heard about that letter, the leaders of Iraq and Madinah who were with him said: 'Qays has changed.' 'Ali said: 'Woe to you, he has not changed. Leave me alone.' They said: 'You should dismiss him because he has changed,' and they kept on at him until he wrote to Qays, saying: 'I want you to be near me, so appoint someone to be in charge in your absence and come."'85 This ~epofl was regarded as more correct by Dr. Yahya in his valuable book Manuiycit Abi MakhnafJCi Tareekh at-Tabari, in which he said: