Hadith 147

sincere. By Allah-azwj! If they had not killed from them except one man deliberately killing him, it would have been Permissible for me due to that killing, to kill the whole army. So, leave what they had killed from the many Muslims than the number they had entered with upon them, and has Triumphed from them, therefore, remoteness is for the unjust people [23: 41]. Then I-asws looked into the matter of the people of Syria, and there the Bedouins and the people of greed, mischief-makers, tyrants had gathered from every corner and the ones whom it was befitting that they be educated or ruled upon, and they took to his hand who weren’t from the Emigrants nor the Helpers, nor the followers with the good deeds. I travelled to them and called them to the obedience and the unity, but they refused except wretchedness, and separation, and they got up in the faces of the Muslims, shooting at them with the arrows, and stabbing with the spears. So, over there, I-asws arose to them with the Muslims and fought them. When the weapons bit them and they found the pain of the injuries, they raised the Qurans calling to what was in it. I-asws informed you that they weren’t people of religion nor Quran, and they were raising treacherously and as a plot and a deception, and a slackening and a weakness, so continue upon your rights and your fighting. But you refused unto me-asws and said, ‘Accept from them, so if they answer to what is in the Book we shall gather upon what we are upon from the truth, and if they refuse, it would be a great argument for us against them’. I-asws accepted from them and refrained from them when you insisted and refused, and the reconciliation between you and them was upon two men reviving what the Quran revives and killing off whatever the Quran kills off. Their opinions differed and their judgments were separate, and they discarded what was in the Judgment of the Quran and oppose what is in the Book. Allah-azwj Kept the Guidance away from them and Pointed them both to be in the straying. Both their judgments were discarded, and they were deserving of it. A sect from us was lost, so we left them for as long as they left us until when they were wicked in the earth, killing and corrupting, we went to them and said, ‘Hand over to us the killers of our brothers, then the Book of Allah-azwj would be between us and you’. They said, ‘All of us kill them, and all of us permitted their blood and your blood’, and they were severe upon us with their cavalry and their infantry. Allah-azwj Destroyed them the destruction of the unjust. When that happened from their concern, I-asws instructed you that you should immediately continue to your enemies. You said, ‘Our swords are few, and our arrows are depleted, and the blades of our spears have rusted, and most of these are no good, so return with us to our city so we can prepare an excellent preparation. When we return, we shall increase in our fighter numbers due to the ones from us who had died, and separated from us, for in that is more strengthening for us against our enemies’. I-asws came back with you until when you were overlooking upon Al-Kufa,