Hadith 459

said, ‘Your faulting of my opinion and your opposition to me and respecting of Ali-asws, when you were laughed at when you went against him-asws’. Amro laughed and said, ‘As for opposing you and being disobedient to you, that was what it was, and as for my being laughed at, so no man has been able to go against Ali-asws. So if you would like to recite from it, then do so’. Muawiya was silent, and the matter of these two was spread among the people of Syria. Abaan said that Sulaym said, ‘And Ali-asws passed by a group of Syrians among whom was Al-Waleed Bin Uqba Bin Abu Mueet and they were using obscenities against him-asws. He-asws got to know of that. He-asws halted with his-asws companions then said to them: ‘Go to them in a tranquil state and with righteous countenance and maintain the dignity of. Indeed, worse than us in the ignorance to Allah-azwj, and the audacity of the people and their delusion, is the group whose leader is Muawiya, and Ibn Nabaga (Amro Bin Al-A’as), and Abu Al-Awr Al-Salamy, and Ibn Abu Mueet who is a drunkard who has been whipped due to it in, and the fugitive Marwaan, and these are the ones who are standing there speaking obscenities. And before today they did not fight against me-asws or verbally abused me-asws, and I-asws used to call them towards and they were calling me to worship of the idols. Praise be to Allah-azwj, for the mischievous ones and the hypocrites have been inimical towards me-asws. This matter is to the Majestic-azwj that the mischievous hypocrites were in our presence not satisfied and to they were apprehensive. They deceived this community and made their hearts drink the love of sedition (Al-Fitna) and attracted their desires towards the falsehood. So they established the war against us in order to extinguish the Light of Allah-azwj, but Allah will Complete His Light, and even if the Kafirs abhor it [61: 8]. Then he-asws mobilised against them and said: ‘These ones will not stop from this position of theirs unless they are challenged by which the hearts fly out, and they are struck by which the noses are ousted, and bones are broken and wrists fall off, and until their foreheads are knocked by the iron rods and their bones are crushed on their chests, and their chins and their collar bones are pulled out. Where are the people seekers of the recompense? ’
He said, ‘Approximately four thousand came up to him-asws. He-asws called upon Muhammad Bin Al-Hanafiyya and said: ‘O my-asws son, walk towards this flag with a slow walk until your spear heads are close to piercing their chests, So hold there until my-asws flag comes to you’. He did so. And Ali-asws prepared the like of them. When Muhammad started piercing their chests with the spears, Ali-asws ordered the ones whom he-asws had prepared, to attack along with them. So they shook them, and Muhammad and those who were with him arose and moved them from their places, and killed most of them’’. [97]