Had I not disliked...
Al-Kāfi|Volume 8|Book 1|Chapter 544
جَمِيلٌ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا (عليهما السلام) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله) لَوْ لَا أَنِّي أَكْرَهُ أَنْ يُقَالَ إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً اسْتَعَانَ بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى إِذَا ظَفِرَ بِعَدُوِّهِ قَتَلَهُمْ لَضَرَبْتُ أَعْنَاقَ قَوْمٍ كَثِيرٍ.
544. Jameel, from Zurara, from one of them عليه الصلاة والسلام (Fifth or Sixth Imam عليه الصلاة والسلام) having said: ‘The Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said: ‘Had it not been for my صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم disliking that they would say, ‘Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم sought support of the people so that he صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم would be victorious over his صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم enemies’, I صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم would have killed a lot of people by striking their necks’.
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/508)
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