Hadith 68

tion, and if I-asws were to kill him, by Allah-azwj, no man would have missed him, from the ones I-asws killed on the day of the conquest of Makkah, and in this generation, and the doubt would not oppose me in that Khalid, his heart does not even hold the Eman to a measurement of a wing of a mosquito. And as for the iron which is in his neck, so Ali-asws is not able upon removing it. Khalid himself should remove it, or you should remove it from him, for you are foremost with him, if that which you are claiming is correct’. Bureyda Al-Aslami and Aamir Bin Al-Ashja’a stood up to him-asws and said, ‘O Abu Al-Hassan-asws! By Allah-azwj! No one can remove it from his neck except the one-asws who lifted the gate of Khyber with one hand, and threw it behind his-asws back, and carried it and made it to be a bridge for the people to cross upon, and it was above his-asws forearm’. And Ammar Bin Yasser stood up to him-asws and addressed him-asws as well, among the ones who addressed him-asws. But, he-asws did not answer anyone, until Abu Bakr said to him-asws, ‘I ask you by Allah-azwj, and by the right of your-asws brother-saww the Chose one, Rasool-Allah-saww, only have mercy on Khalid and remove it from his neck’. When he asked him-asws with that, he-asws was bashful, and he-asws was of a lot of bashfulness. He-asws pulled Khalid towards him and pulled off the collar, pieces and pieces, and opened it in his-asws hands, and it opened like the candle. Then he-asws struck the top of the head of Khalid with the first (piece), then second (piece). He said, ‘Aah! O Amir Al-Momineen-asws’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘You are saying it upon an abhorrence from you, and had I-asws not uprooted it, I-asws would have brought the third (piece) from your bottom’, and he-asws did not cease cutting the entire iron (rod) until he-asws removed it from his neck. And the group went on to exclaim Takbeer, and proclaiming the Oneness (of Allah-azwj, and being astounded from the strength which Allah-azwj the Glorious had Given Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and they left grateful’’. And in another report there is an increase, and it is this: –
‘The group dispersed being thankful to him-asws, and they were astounded from that. Abu Bakr said, ‘Do not be astonished from Abu Al-Hassan-asws! By Allah-azwj! I was by the side of Rasool-Allah-saww on the day Ali-asws uprooted the gate of Khyber. I saw Rasool-Allah-saww having smiled until his-saww teeth were seen, then he-saww wept until his-saww beard was wet. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! You-saww are smiling and weeping in one time! ? ’
He-saww said: ‘Yes. As for my-saww smile, I-saww was rejoicing with Ali-asws uprooting the gate of Khyber, and as for my-saww weeping, so it is for Ali-asws. He-asws did not uproot it except and he-asws is Fasting since three days (breaking Fast) purely upon the water, and had he-asws broken the Fast upon the food, he-asws would have thrown it from behind the bridge’’. [66]