168 - My father, may Allah have mercy on him, narrated to me: Muḥammad b. Yazīd informed us, from al-ʿAwwām b. Ḥawshab, from Abū Rawḥ al-Shāmī, he said: Muʿāwiya passed by Kaʿb while he was narrating and said: "What are these narrations, O Kaʿb, son of the mother of Kaʿb?" Kaʿb said: "Yes, by God, O Muʿāwiya, God, Mighty and Majestic, has a dwelling containing seventy thousand dwellings on a single pillar of ruby, in which there is no crack nor joint, and none shall inhabit it except five: a prophet, or a truthful one, or a martyr, or one who judges himself strictly, or a just imam. So speak, which of them are you, O Muʿāwiya?" So Muʿāwiya turned away weeping, saying: "How can you attain justice, O Muʿāwiya?"
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