Hadith 255

a while, and the people were awaiting the arrival of the accursed from the Kinda door. The people were pre-occupied with looking at the door and watching out for the arrival of the accursed, and the Masjid had filled with the people between the criers and the mourners. It wasn’t except a while, and there, shouts had arisen from a group of the people, and they had come with Ibn Muljim-la, bound, and this one was cursing him-la, and this one was hitting him-la. He (the narrator) said, ‘The people fell upon each other looking at him-la, and they came with the accursed having been bound, and this one was cursing him-la, and this one was hitting him-la, and they were tearing his-la flesh with their teeth, and they were saying to him-la, ‘O enemy of Allah-azwj! What have you-la done? You-la have destroyed the community of Muhammad-saww and have killed best of the people! ’
And he-la was silent, and in front of him-la there was a man called Huzeyfa Al-Nakhaie having an unsheathed sword in his hand, and he was repelling the people away from killing him-la, and he was saying, ‘This is the killer of the Imam Ali-asws’, until they entered him-la into the Masjid’. Al-Shaby said, ‘It is as if I am looking at him (Ibn Muljim-la) and his-la eyes had risen to the top of his-la head, as if these were two pieces of clots, and a strike had fallen in his-la face which had shattered his-la face and his-la nose, and the blood was sailing upon his-la beard and upon his-asws chest, and he-la was looking right and left, and his-la eyes had risen to the top of his-la head, and he-la was brown of colour, and of good face, and in his-la face were the impacts of the Sajdahs, and there was black hair upon his-la head spreading upon his-la face, as he-la was the Pelted Satan-la. When they came with him-la, they paused him-la in front of Amir Al-Momineen-asws. When Al-Hassan-asws looked at him-la, he-asws said to him-la: ‘O woe be unto you-la! O Accursed! O enemy of Allah-azwj! You-la are the killer of Amir Al-Momineen-asws and have bereaved us of an Imam-asws of the Muslims. Is this his-asws recompense from you-la, when he-asws had sheltered you-la, and drew you-la near and closer, and preferred you-la over others? And was the Imam-asws evil to you-la until you-la recompensed him-asws with this recompense, O wretch? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘He-la did not speak, but his-la eyes shed tears. Al-Hassan-asws devoted to his-asws father-asws, kissing him-asws, and he-asws said to him-asws: ‘He-la killed you-asws, O father-asws! Allah-azwj has Enabled (us) from him-la’. But he-asws did not answer him-asws, and he-asws was sleeping. He-asws repeated, to awaken him-asws from his-asws sleep. Then he-asws turned towards Ibn Muljim and said to him-la: ‘O enemy of Allah-azwj! Was this his-asws recompense from you-la, O enemy of Allah-azwj? He-asws had lodged you-la, and drew you-la near and closer, and loved you-la, and preferred you-la over others! Was the Imam-asws evil to you-la until you-la recompensed him-asws with this recompense, O most wretched of the wretched ones? ’
The Accursed said to him-asws, ‘O Abu Muhammad-asws! can you save the one in the Fire? [39: 19]? ’ During that, the people clamoured with the crying and the lamenting, so Al-Hassan-asws instructed them with being silent. Then Al-Hassan-asws turned to the one who had come with him-la, Huzeyfa (Al-Nakhaie), may Allah-azwj be Pleased with him, and said to him: ‘How did you win against the enemy of Allah-azwj, and where did you meet him-la? ’
He said, ‘O my Master-asws! My narration with him-la is strange, and that is, I was sleeping yesterday in my house, and my wife was to my side, and she is from Ghatafan, and I was sleeping, and she was awake, when she heard a loud shrill giving the news of death