Hadith 255

ve permission to you during all times we sit in, that you can enter to see us, from without being prevented nor pushed away’. He returned to him on the night of the nineteenth, and he had recognised the place which Muawiya used to pray Salat in. When the Muezzin proclaimed the Azaan for Al-Fajr (Salat) and Muawiya came to the Masjid and entered his prayer Niche, he went to him with the sword and struck him. He separated from him, so he wanted to strike his neck, but he failed. The sword fell in his private part, and his strike had been the strike of a coward. Muawiya said, ‘Do not let the get away from you! ’ One of his companions replaced him for the Salat, and he got up to go to his house. And as for Al-Anbari, the people seized him and tied him up and came with him to Muawiya, and there was unconsciousness upon him. When he woke up, said to him, ‘Woe be to you, O depraved! My thought about you have been disappointed. What is that which carried you upon this? ’ He said to him, ‘Leave me from your talk! There are three of us who have vowed upon killing you, and killing Amro Bin Al-Aas, and Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. So, if my two companions have been sincere, then Ali-asws and Amro Bin Al-Aas have been killed. And as for you, so your death is wandering around like the death of a wolf’. Muawiya said to him, ‘Upon the rubbing of your nose! ’ He ordered with him to the prison. Al-Sa’ady came to him, and he was a physician. When he looked at him, said to him, ‘Choose one of the two treatments. Either I heat up an iron and place it upon the place of the sword (strike), or I give you a drink, the (future) children would be terminated from you, and you will be cured from it, because your strike was poisoned’. Muawiya said, ‘As for the fire, there is not patience for me upon it; and as for the children, so in Yazeed-la and Abdullah there is what my eyes can be delighted with’. So, he quenched him the drink. He was cured and there were no children for him afterwards. And as for Ibn Muljim-la, may Allah-azwj Curse him-la, he-la travelled until he-la entered Al-Kufa and came to the central Masjid, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws was seated at the door of Kinda. He-la did not enter it and did not greet unto him-la, and to his-asws side were Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, and with him-asws was a group of his-asws companions’. When they looked at Ibn Muljim-la, they said, ‘Did you-asws not see Ibn Muljim-la passing across and he-la did not greet unto you-asws? ’ He-asws said: ‘Leave him-la! For him-la there is an occupation from the occupations. By Allah-azwj! He-la will be drying this from this! ’ – and he-asws indicated to his-asws beard and his-asws head. Then he-asws said (a poem): ‘For the human being, there is no rescuing from the death. Every person, it is inevitable that the annihilation comes to him. Blessed is Allah-azwj and Glorious! For everything there is a term and an ending. The human being should evaluate the matter within himself, and the Decree would come to him. Then he-asws went on to prolong the looking at him-la until he-la disappeared from his-asws eyes, and he-asws lowered his-asws head to the ground saying: ‘We are for Allah-azwj and are returning to Him-azwj, and there is neither might nor strength except with Allah-azwj the Exalted, the Magnificent! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘And Ibn Muljim-la travelled until he-la came to the house of Qatam, and she had despaired from his-la returning to her, and she had presented herself to the sons of her uncle and her clan and had stipulated upon them the killing of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, but no one had come forward upon that. When he-la knocked the door, she said, ‘Who is knocking? ’ He-la said, ‘I-la, Abdul Rahman! ’ Qatam was happy with him-la, and went out to him-la, and