Hadith 115

impurities, and the clothes from dirt when they are soaked in it just as the clothes are soaked in the water’. Abdullah Bin Aamir Al-Hazramy said, and he was an office bearer of Usman upon Makkah, ‘I will be the first one to seek his blood’. He was the first one to answer, and the clan of Umayya followed him, and they had fled from Al-Medina to Makkah after the killing of Usman. They raised their heads, and the first one to speak at Al-Hijaz and follow them was Saeed Bin Al-Aas, and Al-Waleed Bin Utbah, and rest of the clan of Umayya. And Abdullah Bin Aamir arrived to them from Al-Basra with a lot of wealth, and Ya’la Bin Muniya (came) from Al-Yemen and with him were six hundred camels and six thousand Dinars. He knelt (his camels) at Al-Abtah, and Talha And Al-Zubeyr arrived from Al-Medina and they met Ayesha. She said, ‘What is behind you? ’ They said, ‘We endured being fugitives from Al-Medina, from the villains, and the Bedouins, and we separated from a confused people, neither recognising any truth nor denying any falsehood, nor preventing themselves’. She said, ‘Arise to these villains! ’ They said, ‘We shall go to Syria’. Ibn Aamir said, ‘Muawiya suffices you at Syria, so go to Al-Basra’. The opinion stood upon Al-Basra, and the wives of the Prophet-saww were with her upon going to Al-Medina. When her (Ayesha’s) view changed to go to Al-Basra, they left that, and Hafsa answered them to the travelling with them. But, her brother Abdullah refused her. And Ya’la Bin Muniya equipped them with six hundred camels and six hundred thousand Dirhams, and Ibn Aamir equipped them with a lot of wealth, and her caller called out, ‘The mother of the believers, and Talha and Al-Zubeyr are going to Al-Basra, so the one who wants to strengthen and fight against the squatters, and seek retaliation for Usman, and there isn’t a ride for him, let him come! ’
They were carried upon six hundred camels, and they travelled among a thousand. And it is said, among nine hundred from the people of Al-Medina and Makkah. And the people met them, and they were among three thousand men. When they reached Zaat Irq, they cried upon. There was no day seen which had more crying than that day, and it was named