NAHJUL BALAGHA
SERMON 31
Do not meet Talhah (ibn `Ubaydilláh). If you meet him you will find him like an unruly bull whose horns are turned towards its ears. He rides a ferocious riding beast and says it has been tamed. But you meet az-Zubayr because he is soft-tempered. Tell him that your maternal cousin says that, "(It looks as if) in the Hijáz you knew me (accepted me), but (on coming here to) Iraq you do not know me (do not accept me). So, what has dissuaded (you) from what was shown (by you previously)?!"
as-Sayyid ar-Razí says: The last sentence of this sermon "famá `adá mimmá badá" has been heard only from Amír al-mu’minín (as).