Hadith 56

fight them, and neither am I-asws lying nor have I-asws been lied to, and that for them is the turning of the mill of the Momineen upon the deviants. O woe! Yet how remote are they from the Spirit of Allah-azwj! ’
Then he-asws said (a poem): ‘When the horses roamed in the wilderness and uncovered the frowning, not questioned without stabbing. They all turned together, then there was separation between them, he plunged a spear from it into the purest red, so the generation is not met except with its chest, when the guts of every coward shivers’. Then he-asws raised his-asws hands and his-asws head towards the sky and said: ‘O Allah-azwj! Be Witness that three have been excused from the warning, and with You-azwj is the Assistance, and to You-azwj is the complaint, and upon You-azwj is the reliance, and You-azwj Know Warned of their turning. The group refused except to be deliberately in the falsehood, and Allah-azwj Refused except the truth. So, where are they going with you, from the firewood of Hell and from the goodness of the booty? ’ – and he-asws gestured towards his-asws companions and said: ‘Prepare for your enemies, for you will overcome by the Permission of Allah-azwj! ’ Then he-asws recited to them the end of Surah Aal-e-Imraan (chapter 3)’’. [106]
(The book) ‘Ikhtisas’ – Al Moalla Bin Muhammad Al Basry, from Bistam Bin Murrah, from Is’haq Bin Hassan, from Al Haysam Bin Waqid, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Al Abdy, from Ibn Tareyf, from Ibn NUbata who said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws ordered us with the travelling to Al-Madain from Al-Kufa, so we travelled on the day of Sunday, and Amro Bin Hureys stayed behind among seven persons. They went out to a place by Al-Hira called Al-Khawarnaq and they said, ‘We shall have a picnic’. When it was the day of Wednesday, we went out and joined up with Ali-asws he-asws had gathered. While they were having lunch when a lizard came out to them. They hunted it and Amro Bin Hureys seized it and held its hand. They said, ‘Pledge to this one as ‘amir al-momineen’. The (group of) seven pledged and Amro was their eighth, and they departed on the night of Wednesday. They arrived at Al-Madain on the day of Friday, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws was addressing, and they had not separated from each other and had been together until they descended at the door of the Masjid. When they entered, Amir Al-Momineen-asws looked at them and said: ‘O you people! Rasool-Allah-saww divulged a secret to me-asws of a thousand Ahadeeth, in each Hadeeth are a thousand doors, and for each door are a thousand keys, and I-asws have heard Allah-azwj Saying: On the Day (of Qiyamah), We will be Calling every human being with their Imam. [17: 71]. And I-asws swear to you all by Allah-azwj! Eight persons will be Resurrected on the Day of Qiyamah with their imam, and it is a lizard, and if I-asws so desire to name them, I-asws can do so’. He (the narrator) said, ‘If only you could have seen Amro Bin Hureys. He fell down just as the palm leaves tend to drop’’. [107]