Hadith 98

ese on both sides, and behind these and in front of these. They are neither staying back from these so they would be submitted in enemy hands, nor are they advancing in front of these, so they would be separated from these. A part of a person is his pair (comrade), and he should comfort his brother with himself, and not to leave his pair (comrade) to his brother, so they might gather against him, his pair and pair of his brother. And I-asws swear by Allah-azwj! If you were to flee from the current sword you will not be safe from the sword of the Hereafter. You are the important ones of the Arabs, and the mighty peaks. Surely, in the fleeing is Fury of Allah-azwj and the necessitated disgrace and the lasting shame, and that the fleer would not be increased in his age (by his fleeing) nor would there be a block between him and his day (of death). Who will go to Allah-azwj like the thirsty wanting the water? The Paradise is under the edges of the spears. Today the news would be tested. By Allah-azwj! I-asws am more desirous to meet them (in battle) than they are to (go to) their houses. O Allah-azwj! If they reject the truth, then Disperse their group and Divide their words, and Seize them for their sins. They will never move from their positions without stabbing of the armour the breeze could come out from it, and the strikes splitting the skulls, and breaking of the bones, and cracking the arms and the legs, and until they are shot at with the arrows followed by the arrows, and they are pelted by the battalions sufficed by the battalions, and until their cities are assailed by forces followed by forces, and until the cavalry tramples in the edges of their lands, and tracks of their animals and their meadows’’. [164]