Al-Adab Al-Mufrad #1027
Greetings
'Ubaydullah ibn 'Abdullah said, "Mu'awiya went on his first hajj
when he was the khalifa and 'Uthman ibn Hanif al-Ansari came to him and
said, 'Peace be upon you, Amir, and the mercy of Allah.' The people of
Syria objected to that and said, 'Who is this hypocrite who shortens the
greeting of the Amir al-Mu'minin!' 'Uthman made his camel kneel and said,
'Amir al-Mu'minin! These men object to something which you know better
than them. By Allah, I used to this greeting for Abu Bakr, 'Umar, and 'Uthman,
and none of them objected to it.' Mu'awiya said to those of the people
of Syria who had spoken, 'Take it easy! It was partly as he stated. But
when the civil war engaged the people of Syria, they said, "Do not shorten
the greeting of our khalifa in our presence (i.e. from Amir al-Mu'minin
to Amir)." People of Madina, I will treat you as friends even though you
use 'Amir" for a zakat collector.'"
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This hadith is #1027 from Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, in the Book of Greetings. Al-Adab Al-Mufrad contains 1,326 hadiths across 57 books.