Hadith 129

xposed (yourself) to be killed’. So, I went with her to a house of Abdullah Bin Khalaf Al-Khuzaie. She said, ‘I vow upon you that you seek Abdullah Bin Al-Zubeyr, whether he was injured or killed’. He said, ‘He was a target of Al-Ashtar’. Muhammad left to go to the soldiers and found him. He said, ‘Sit up, O inauspicious one of his family! ’ I came to her with him. She shrieked and cried, then said, ‘O my brother! Get him the amnesty from Ali-asws’. Muhammad came to Amir Al-Momineen-asws and sought amnesty for him from him-asws. He-asws said: ‘I-asws grant him amnesty and amnesty for the entirety of the people’. And the event of the camel was at Al-Khureyba, and the fighting occurred after Al-Zohr (midday), and expired in the evening. There were with Amir Al-Momineen-asws, twenty thousand men. From them, eighty men were participants of the battle of Badr, and two hundred and fifty from the ones who had pledged allegiance (to Rasool-Allah-saww) beneath the tree, and one thousand and five hundred men from the companions. And Ayesha was among thirty thousand or more than it. From these there were six hundred men from Makkah. Qatadah said, ‘On the day of the camel, twenty thousand were killed’. And Al-Kaby said, ‘From the companions of Ali-asws a thousand men were killed, and seventy horsemen, from them being Zayd Bin Sowhan, and Hind Al-Jamali, and Abu Abdullah Al-Abdy, and Abdullah Bin Ruqayya’. And Abu Mikhnaf and Al-Kalby said, ‘There were killed from the companions of the camel, from Al-Azd in particular, four thousand men, and from the clan of Adayy and their slaves, ninety men, and from Bakr Bin Wail, eighty men, and from the clan of Hanzala, nine hundred men, and from the clan of Najiya, four hundred men. And the rest were from a mixture of the people up to the complete nine thousands, except ninety men of Quraysh, from them being Talha, and Al-Zubeyr, and Abdullah Bin Attab Bin Aseyd, and Abdullah Bin Hakeem Bin Hizam, and Abdullah Bin Shafie Bin Talha, and Muhammad Bin Talha, and Abdullah Bin Ubay Bin Khalaf Al Jumhy, and Abdul Rahman Bin Ma’ady, and Abdullah Bin Ma’ady. And the camel was first hamstrung by Amir Al Momineen-asws, and it is said, Al Muslim Bin Adnan, and it is said, a man from the Helpers, and it is said, a man from Zuhly, and it is said of Abdul Rahman Bin Surad Al Tanoukhy gathered the hamstrung camel. He said (a couplet), ‘I hamstrung and did not hamstrung it for its sake upon me, but I had seen its destruction’. Up to his words, ‘Alas! If only I had hamstrung it before that’. Usman Bin Huneyf said, ‘I have attended the wars and they have shown me, but I never saw a day like the day of the camel. Fitna was intense upon the Momin, and there were killed from them to burn the heroes. Alas! If only the woman (Ayesha) had stayed in her house, and alas, if only (the camel) ‘Asker’ had not departed’’. [2]