Hadith 399

le fought a severe battle on the day of Wednesday. A man from the companions of Ali-asws said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I will attack upon Muawiya until I kill him! ’ He took a horse and rode it. Then he struck with (his sword) until when he was standing by his tent, he pushed it, and it did not neigh anything from the pausing at the head of Muawiya, and Muawiya entered his tent. The man descended from his horse and entered into it. Muawiya came out from the tent, and the man emerged in his tracks. Muawiya came out the people surrounded him, and he said, ‘Woe be unto you all! If the swords cannot be used in this, and had it not been that he would not have arrive to you, upon you is (to pelt) with the stones’. They pelted him with the stones until the man died. Then Muawiya returned to his seat’. Nasr said, ‘When this day ended with what was in it, they came to the morning of the second day, and the two legions were facing each other. A man from the people of Syria came out and ask for the duel. A man from the people of Al-Iraq came out to him, and they both fought a severe fight. Then the Iraqi strangle-held him and they both fell down, and the horsemen returned. Then the Iraqi subdued him and sat upon his chest, and he removed the helmet from him intending to slaughter him, and there it was his own brother from his father. The companions of Ali-asws shouted with him, ‘Woe be unto you! Deal the deathblow upon him! ’ He said, ‘It is my brother’. They said, ‘Then leave him’. He said, ‘No, by Allah-azwj, until Amir Al-Momineen-asws permits’. Ali-asws was informed with that and he-asws sent a message to him that he should leave him. He left him and he returned to the rows of Muawiya’’. [22]