Hadith 87

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – And in a Hadeeth of Abdul Rahman Bin Jundab, from his father, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws used to instruct in every place we met our enemies in, he-asws said: ‘do not fight the people until they initiate you, for you, by the Praise of Allah-azwj, are upon an argument, and your leaving them until they initiate you (the fighting) is another argument for you. When you defeat them then neither kill one turning around nor attack upon an injured, nor uncover a nakedness, nor trample the slain’’. [151]
Explanation – It is reported by Ibn Abi Al Hadeed, the second Hadeeth from the book of Nasr Bin Muzahim, from Amro Bin Sa’ad, from Ismail Bin Yazeed, from his father, from Abu Sadiq, and it is reported by Seyyid Al Razy the first Hadeeth in Al Nahj (Al Balagah) like this, ‘After having continued the first sermon up to his-asws words: a timed Ordinance for the Momineen [4: 103]: ‘Are you not listening to an answer of the people of the Fire when they would be asked, What brought you into Saqar (Inferno)? [74: 42] They shall say, ‘We were not from the Musalleen [74: 43]. And it tends to drop the sins (like) dropping of the leaves and removes them (like) the removal of the noose. Rasool-Allah-saww resembled it with the bathhouse which happens to be at the door of a man, so he bathes from it five times during the day and night. Would there remain any filth on him, and he had recognised its right? ’
And he continued up to his-asws words: ‘And Rasool-Allah-saww had still established the Salat even after his-saww receiving glad tidings of the Paradise due to the Words of Allah-azwj the Glorious: And enjoin your family with the Salat and be constant upon it. [20: 132]. So, he-saww used to instruct his-saww family with it and was patience upon it himself-saww. Then the Zakat was made to be with the Salat to be drawing nearer (to Allah-azwj) for the people of Al Islam, the one who gave it’. And he continued the speech up to his-asws words: ‘But they were scared from the Punishment, and he used his intellect what he was ignorant of, the one who was weaker than them, and it is the human being he was unjust, ignorant [33: 72]. Allah-azwj the Glorious, nothing is hidden from Him-asws what the servants are committing during their nights and days. He-azwj is Aware of the intricacies and Encompasses it in Knowledge. Their own body parts are His-azwj witnesses, and their limbs are His-azwj armies, and their own consciences are His-azwj spies, and your privacies are His-azwj eyes’. End’’. [152]