Hadith 255

eturn to me, so here I am awaiting your-asws return’. He-la went out from the door and she was behind him-la, urging him-la on with these couplets, ‘I am saying, then I shall not live as I am tired of the slavery, and the lethal poison of death was its drink. We send Ibn Muljim-la to it in the darkness, the important, when there is no resemblance for it in war. So, take it, O Ali-asws, a strike upon your-asws head, by a fortunate wrist, soon he-la will meet its Rewards’. The reporter said, ‘He-la turned towards her and said to her, ‘By Allah-azwj! You have spoilt the poem in this last couplet’ She said, ‘And why is that so? ’ He-la said to her: ‘You should have said, ‘By an unfortunate wrist, soon he-la will meet its Punishment’’. The compiler of this book, may Allah-azwj Sanctify his soul, said, ‘This Hadeeth is not correct. But we have written it like what we had found it, and the correct report is that he-la spend the night in the Masjid, and with him-la were two men, one of them was Shabeeb Bin Bajra, and the other was Wardan Bin Mujalid, assisting him-la upon killing Ali-asws. When he-asws (Amir Al-Momineen-asws) had proclaimed Azaan and descended from the minaret, he-asws went on to glorify Allah-azwj, and extolling His-azwj Holiness, and exclaiming His-azwj Greatness, and frequenting from sending the Salawaat upon the Prophet-saww’. The reporter said, ‘And it was from his-asws honourable etiquettes that he-asws would awaken the ones sleeping in the Masjid and would say to the sleeping one: ‘The Salat! May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you! Arise to the Salat Prescribed upon you! ’ Then he-asws would recite: Surely, the Salat prevents from the immoralities and the evil, [29: 45]. So, he-asws did that like what he-asws used to upon the flow of his-asws habit, with the ones sleeping in the Masjid, until when he-asws reached to the accursed one. He-asws saw him-la sleeping upon his-la face (face down – sleeping on his stomach). He-asws said to him-la: ‘O you! Arise from this sleep of yours-la, for it is a sleep Allah-azwj Abhors, and it is sleeping of Satan-la, and sleeping of the people of the Fire! But sleep upon your-la right (side), for it is sleeping of the scholars, or upon your-la left, for it is sleeping of the wise ones, and do not sleep upon your-asws back, for it is sleeping of the Prophets-as! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘The accursed moved, as if he-la wanted to stand, and he-la was not leaving from his-la place. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to him-la: ‘You-la have thought of (doing) something, The skies may almost be torn apart from it, and the earth be rent asundered, and the mountains fall down crumbling [19: 90], and if you-la like I-asws can inform you with what is under your clothes’. Then he-asws left him-la and turned away from him-la to go to his-asws prayer Niche. And he-la stood up straight, and he-asws was prolonging the ruk’u and the Sajdah during the Salat, as per his-asws norm during the Obligatory and the Optional Salats, with the presence of his-asws heart. When he-la sensed it, the accursed one got up quickly and came walking until he-la paused by the pillar which the Imam-asws was praying Salat at. He-la respited him-asws until he-asws had prayed the first Cycle and had performed the first ruk’u and Sajdah from it and raised his-asws head. During that, he-la grabbed the sword and shook it, then he-la struck him-asws upon his-asws head, the honourable, the noble. The strike fell upon the strike which Amro Bin Abd Wudd Al-Aamiry had hit him-asws. Then the strike took the parting of his-asws head to the place of the Sajdah. When the Imam-asws felt the strike, he-asws did not groan and was patient, and anticipated, and fell upon his-asws face, and there wasn’t anyone with him-asws, saying: ‘In the Name of