Hadith 255

uring the emergence of the dawn, the Muezzin came to the door of Amro and sought permission and said, ‘The Salat! May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you. The Salat! He woke up and was brought water, and he performed wud’u, and he applied perfume and went to go out to the Salat. His feet wavered and he fell upon his face. He sweated like the sweating of women, and it pre-occupied him from going out. He said, ‘Forward Kharjat Bin Tameem the judge to pray Salat (leading) the people! ’
The judge came and entered the prayer Niche in semi-darkness. Al-Bark came and paused behind him, and his sword was under his clothes, and he had not doubt that it was Amro. He waited until he had performed Sajdah and had sat from this Sajdah, he unsheathed his sword and called out, ‘There is no judgment except for Allah-azwj, not any obedience to the one who disobeys Allah-azwj! ’ Then he struck him with the sword on the top of his head, and he died in that very time. The people rushed and they caught him, and seized his sword from his hand, and they pained him with severe hits and said to him, ‘O enemy of Allah-azwj! You killed a Muslim man performing Sajdah in his prayer Niche! ’ He said, ‘O donkeys of the people of Egypt! He was deserving of being killed! ’ They said, ‘That is due to what? Woe be unto you! ’ He said, ‘Due to his striving in the Fitna, because he is shrewd one of the riff-raff who preferred the Fitna and enforced it, and strengthened it, and adorned for Muawiya the war against Ali-asws! ’
They said, ‘O woe be unto you! Who do you mean? ’ He said, ‘The tyrant, the Kafir, the atheist Amro Bin Al-Aas, who split the staff of the Muslims and violated the sanctity of religion! ’ They said, ‘Your thinking is disappointed, and your arrow has missed! The one you killed is not him, but rather he is Kharjat’. He said, ‘O people! The excuse is to Allah-azwj and to you all, for by Allah-azwj, I did not intend Kharjat, and rather I intended killing Amro! ’ They tied him in shoulder straps and came to him to Amro. When he saw him, he said, ‘Isn’t this one our companion, the Kharijite? ’ They said to him, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘What is the matter with him? ’ They said, ‘He has killed Kharjat’. Amro was startled at that and said, ‘We are for Allah-azwj and are returning to Him-azwj, and there is neither any might nor strength except with Allah-azwj, the Exalted, the Magnificent! ’ Then he turned to him and said, ‘O you! Why did you do that? ’ He said to him, ‘O mischief-maker! I did not seek other than you, nor did I intend anyone besides you! ’ He said, ‘And why is that so? ’
He said, ‘We are three. We had made a pact at Makkah upon killing you and killing Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws and Muawiya during this night. So, if my two companions are sincere, so Ali-asws has been killed at Al-Kufa and Muawiya in Syria, and as for you, so you are safe’. Amro said, ‘O slave! Detain him until we write to Muawiya! ’ So, they imprisoned him until Muawiya ordered him with killing him, so he killed him’’. As for Abdullah Al-Anbari, he aimed for Damascus, and he asked about Muawiya. He was pointed to him. He went hesitantly to his house, but he was not able to gain entry to him until Muawiya permitted on the day of the people with a general permission. He entered to see him with the people, and greeted unto him, and discussed with him for a while and mentioned to him the kings of the clan of Qahtan and the ones having correct speech for him, until he mentioned to him the clan of Umayya, and they were the first kings of Qahtan, and things from their news. When they (others) had dispersed, he remained with him along with his special ones, and he was eloquent, well-informed with the lineages of the Arabs and their poetry. So, Muawiya loved him with intense love. He said, ‘I gi