The reciter: Abu Kuraib, Muhammad ibn al-Ala, and Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us, saying: Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us from al-A'mash from Shaqiq, who said: I heard Sahl ibn Hunayf saying at Siffin:
O ye people, find fault with your (own) discretion. By Allah, on the Day of Abu Jandal (i. e. the day of Hudaibiya), I thought to myself that, if I could, I would reverse the order of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (the terms of the truce being unpalatable). By Allah, we have never hung our swords on our shoulders in any situation whatsoever except when they made easy for us to realise the goal envisaged by us, but this battle of yours (seems to be an exception).
أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، اتَّهِمُوا رَأْيَكُمْ، وَاللهِ، لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي يَوْمَ أَبِي جَنْدَلٍ، وَلَوْ أَنِّي أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَرُدَّ أَمْرَ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَرَدَدْتُهُ، وَاللهِ، مَا وَضَعْنَا سُيُوفَنَا عَلَى عَوَاتِقِنَا إِلَى أَمْرٍ قَطُّ، إِلَّا أَسْهَلْنَ بِنَا إِلَى أَمْرٍ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلَّا أَمْرَكُمْ هَذَا , Ibn Numayr did not mention: "for any command."
