Hadith 309

ople in the presence of Abu Turab (Ali-asws)’. He said, ‘Woe be unto you all! This is the Persian’. They said, ‘Yes’. Ubeydullah said to him, ‘Where is your Lord-azwj? ’ He said, ‘Lying in wait’. He said, ‘It has reached me, the specialisation by Abu Turab (Ali-asws) to you’. He said, ‘Part of that has happened, so what do you want? ’ He said, ‘And it is being said that he-asws had informed you with what you will be facing’. He said, ‘Yes. He-asws informed me that you will be crucifying me as tenth of them, and I would be upon their shortest plank, and nearest of them from the ground’. He said, ‘I shall oppose him-asws’. He said, ‘Woe be unto you! How can you oppose him-asws? But rather he-asws had informed from Rasool-Allah-saww, and Rasool-Allah-saww had informed from Jibraeel-as, and Jibraeel-as had informed from Allah-azwj. So, how can you oppose them? But by Allah-azwj! I have already recognised the place I would be crucified in, where it is from Al-Kufa, and I will be the first creature of Allah-azwj to be reined in like what the horses are reined’. He imprisoned him and imprisoned Al-Mukhtar Bin Abu Ubeyda Al-Saqafy along with him. Meesam said to Al-Mukhtar, and they were both in the prison of Ibn Ziyad, ‘You shall escape and got out rebelling for the blood of Al-Husayn-asws, and you will be killing this tyrant, the one in whose prison we are, and you will tread with your feet upon his forehead and his cheek’. When Ubeydullah Bin Ziyad called for Al-Mukhtar in order to kill him, the postman came with a letter of Yazeed Bin Muawiya-la to Ubeydullah ordering him to free his way, and that is because his sister was under (married to) Abdullah Bin Umar Bin Al-Khattab, so she had asked her husband to intercede regarding him to Yazeed-la. So, he-la interceded and implemented his-la intercession by writing for the way of Al-Mukhtar to be freed upon the arrival of the postman. The postman arrived and he (Al-Mukhtar) had already been brought out for his neck to be struck off. So, he was freed. And as for Meesam, he was brought out after him to be crucified, and Ubeydullah said, ‘I will implement the judgment of Abu Turab (Ali-asws) regarding him’. A man met him (Meesam) and said to him, ‘It was indispensable from this, O Meesam! ’ He smiled and said, ‘For it I have been Created and it (tree) was nourished for me’. When he was raised upon the trunk, the people gathered around him at the door of Amro Bin Hureys. Amro said, ‘He had said, ‘I shall be your neighbour’, and he used to instruct his maid every evening to sweep under its trunk, and sprinkle (water upon) it, and burn some incense under it’. Meesam went on to narrate with the merits of the Clan of Hashim-as and the shame of the clan of Umayya while he was crucified upon the trunk. It was said to Ibn Ziyad, ‘This servant has exposed you all! ’ He said, ‘Rein him! ’ He was reined (in the mouth like a horse)’, so he was the first creature of Allah-azwj to be reined in. When it was during the second day,