Hadith 162

have done so, and he did not forbid them from helping him. And had I-asws found on the day the brother of Taym (Abu Bakr) was pledged allegiance to, forty obedient men, I-asws would have fought them. As for the day Umar and Usman were pledged allegiance to, so no, because I-asws had already pledged allegiance (under compulsion), and someone like me-asws does not break his-asws allegiance. Woe be unto you, O Ibn Qays! How do you see me-asws to had done when Usman was killed and I-asws did find supporters? Have you seen any failures from me-asws, or cowardice, or deficiencies during my-asws event on the day of (battle of) Al Basra, and they were around their camel (with Ayesha being in it). Accursed is the one in it. The accursed is the one killed around it. The accursed is the one who rode it (Ayesha). The accursed is the one who remained living after it, neither repenting nor seeking Forgiveness? ! They killed my-asws helpers, and broke my-asws allegiance, and mutilated my-asws office bearers, and they rebelled against me-asws, and I-asws had gone to them among twelve thousand’ – and in another report: ‘Less than ten thousand, and they were more than one hundred and twenty thousand’ – and in a report: ‘More than fifty thousand. Allah-azwj Helped me-asws against them and Killed them by our hands, and Healed the chests of the group of Momineen. And how do you view, O Ibn Qays, our event at Siffen, and what Allah-azwj Killed fifty thousand of them by our hands, in one plain (Sending them) to the Fire’ – and in another report: ‘More than seventy thousand. And how do you view the day of (battle of) Al-Naharwan when I-asws met the renegades and they (thought of themselves as being) insightful, religious? ! whose striving is lost in the life of the world and they are reckoning that they are good in what they do? ’ [18: 104]. Allah-azwj Killed them in one plain (Sending them) to the Fire. There did not remain (even) ten from them, and they could not (even) kill ten from the Momineen. Woe be unto you, O Ibn Qays! Have you ever seen me-asws to have returned a flag, or seen a retreat? Is it me-asws you are faulting, O Ibn Qays? ! And I-asws was a companion of Rasool-Allah-azwj in the entirety of his-saww places, and his-saww battles, and advancing to the difficulties in front of him-saww, and I-asws neither fled, nor sought shelter, nor ashamed, nor did I-asws turn my-asws back on the Jews turning back. It is not befitting for the Prophet-saww nor for the successor-asws, when he-asws wears his-asws armour and aims to his-asws enemies, and he-asws would return or fold (surrender), until either he-asws is killed of Allah-azwj Grants victory to him-asws. O Ibn Qays! Have you ever heard for me-asws to have fled at all or