Hadith 7

he unseen for me, I would have concealed it, and people are suffering, boiling their cauldrons’ – Up to the end of the couplets. Then he answered him with couplets inclusive upon the excuses. Amro came to him and rebuked him, and both their matters became one. Then Ali-asws called Hashim Bin Utba, and with him was his flag, and he was (clan of) Awr, and said: ‘Until when will we be eating the bread and drinking the water (provisions of war)? ’ Hashim said, ‘I shall never prepare to return to you-asws, ever! ’ Ali-asws said, ‘Parallel to you is Zul Kala’a, and the red death is with him’. Hashim advanced and bearers of the flags of Zul Kala’a presented to him. They exchanged stabs. Hashim stabbed him and killed him, and the killing was a lot. Zul Kala’a attacked, and the people whipped (the swords), and they were both killed. Ibn Hashim took the flag and went quickly and came to Muawiya. When he entered to see him, and Amro Bin Al-Aas was in his presence, he said, ‘O commander of the faithful! This is Al-Mukhtal Bin Al-Mirqal, the slithering one. The stick is from the stick, and rather the snake gives birth to a snake, and the recompense of evil is evil’. Ibn Hashim said to him, ‘I am not the first man to have abandoned his people and realised it in his day’. Muawiya said, ‘These are grudges of Siffeen, and your father did not shield upon you’. Amro said, ‘O commander of the faithful! Enable me from him. I shall injure his wings upon his stomach’. Ibn Hashim said to him, ‘Was it not this one, O Ibn Al-Aas, when he had called you to the duel, and the feet of the men had drenched from the soaking gravel, when the paths were narrowed with you, and your place was being overlooked upon? And I swear by Allah-azwj! Had it not been for your place from him, there would have come to you from me in the hidden, shooting at you from its midst with Ohad falling from the mountain, for you are not ceasing to abound in the surprises, lost in your travels, as the dim-sighted ones are lost in the dark night’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Muawiya was astounded at what he heard from the speech of Ibn Hashim, and he ordered with him to the prison, and stopped from killing him’’. [44]
And from Amro Bin Shimr, from Al Sudy, from Abd Khayr who said, ‘When Hashim was knocked down, a man passed by him and he was lying down between the slain. He said, ‘Convey to Amir Al-Momineen-asws (the greetings) and Mercy of Allah-azwj say to him-asws, ‘I adjure you with Allah-azwj! I only woke up in the morning and I had tied the reins of your horses with the legs of the slain. So, if there is defeat, tomorrow would be to the one who overcomes upon the slain’. The man informed Ali-asws with that. Ali-asws travelled in part of the night until he-asws made the s