[Machine] Mu'awiyah: I would not separate between two elderly men from the tribe of Banu Abd Manaf. So he came to both of them and found that they had tightened their clothes and had reconciled their affair. Ikrimah ibn Khalid narrated from Ibn Abbas, who said: "Mu'awiyah and I were appointed as judges. It was said to us, 'If you see it appropriate to separate them, then separate them. And if you see it appropriate to gather them, then gather them.'"  

مُعَاوِيَةُ مَا كُنْتُ لِأُفَرِّقَ بَيْنَ شَيْخَيْنِ مِنْ بَنِي عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ قَالَ فَأَتَاهُمَا فَوَجَدَهُمَا قَدْ شَدَّا عَلَيْهِمَا أَثْوَابَهُمَا وَأَصْلَحَا أَمْرَهُمَا وَرَوَى عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ بُعِثْتُ أَنَا وَمُعَاوِيَةُ حَكَمَيْنِ فَقِيلَ لَنَا إِنْ رَأَيْتُمَا أَنْ تُفَرِّقَا فَرَّقْتُمَا وَإِنْ رَأَيْتُمَا أَنْ تَجْمَعَا جَمَعْتُمَا