Mattraf b. al-Mughira, who said: “My father, al-Mughira, and I visited Mu’awiya. My father went to him frequently and talked with him. Then he came to me and told me about Mu’awiya and his reason and admired what he saw from him. One night he came and did not have dinner; he was very grieved. I waited him for an hour and I thought that (he was grieved) for something happened to us or to our work. So I asked him:
“-Why can I see you grieved this night?
“-O My little son, I have come from the most wicked of all the ‘people.’
“- And what is that?
“I was alone with Mu’awiya and said to him: ‘Surely you have attained your wishes, O Commander of the faithful; therefore, if you show justice and spread good, for you have become an old man, and if you take care of your brothers from among the Banu Hashim and their womb relatives. By Allah, today, they have nothing of which you are afraid. And he said to me: ‘How far! How far! The brother of Taym ruled and acted justly, and he did what he did, by Allah, but when he perished, his name perished except that a sayer says: ‘Abu Bakr!’ Then the brother of ‘Adi ruled, so he strove and applied himself (to the office of the caliphate) for ten year, by Allah, but when he perished, his name perished except that a sayer says: ‘Umar!’ Then our brother Uthman ruled, so he ruled as a man and none was like him in lineage. He did what he did and (the people) did what they did to him, by Allah, but when he perished, his name perished and what had been done toward him is mentioned. And the brother of the Banu Hashim is mentioned five times a day: ‘I bear witness that Muhammed is the Apostle of Allah!’ So all deeds after this (call), may your mother lose you, will completely be buried!'” ( Ibn Abi al-Haddeed, Sharh Nahjj al-Balagha, vol. 2, p. 357.)