muawiyah said to him he who gave you a thousand dirhams of stipend has wronged you. he has excluded you from the stipend of the sons of the immigrants and the people of siffin. so he ordered five hundred thousand dirhams for him and added a thousand dirhams to his stipend and put it between his skin and his garment. if yazid ibn shajarah deceived muawiyah in this then muawiyah is one who does not deceive or compete. if the stupidity of yazid ibn shajarah and the lack of sense reached what he described himself with then he was not worthy of the five hundred thousand dirhams of his stipend. i do not think that this was hidden from muawiyah but he ignored it knowingly when he did not fulfill his right to leadership.
فقال له معاوية لقد ظلمك من جعلك في ألف من العطاء، أخرجك من عطاء أبناء المهاجرين، وكماة أهل صفين، فأمر له بخمسمائة ألف درهم، وزاده في عطائه ألف درهم، وجعله بين جلده وثوبه. فلئن كان يزيد بن شجرة خدع معاوية في هذه، فمعاوية ممن لا يخادع ولا يجارى؛ ولئن كان بلغ من بلادة يزيد بن شجرة وقلة حسه ما وصف به نفسه، ما كان بجدير بخمسمائة ألف في عطائه. وما أظن ذلك خفي عن معاوية، ولكنه تغافل على معرفة، لما وفاه حق رياسته.