Hadith 163

(The book) ‘Nahj (Al-Balagah)’ – And from a speech of his-asws when he-asws passed by Talha and Abdul Rahman Bin Attab Bin Aseyd, and they had both been slain on the day of the camel: ‘Abu Muhammad has come to this strange place. But, by Allah-azwj! I-asws had disliked for Quraysh to be killed beneath the belly of the stars. I-asws have come across my-asws retaliation from the clan of Abd Manaf, and notables of the clan of Jumh have escaped me-asws. They had brought out their necks to a matter they did not happen to be its rightful ones, and they were cut down below it’’. [39]
And Ibn Abi Al-Hadeed said, ‘Ayesha rode on the day of the battle, the camel named as ‘Asker’ in a carriage clad with panels, then clothed with tiger skins, then above that it was cladded with iron shields’. And it is reported by al Shaby, from Muslim Bin Abu Bakrah, from his father who said, ‘When Talha and Al-Zubeyr arrived at Al-Basrah, I collared my sword, and I intended to enter to see Ayesha, and there she was instructing and forbidding, and there, the command was her command. So, I remembered a Hadeeth I had heard it from Rasool-Allah-saww: ‘The people will never succeed, their affairs are managed by a woman’. So, I left and abandoned them’. And this Hadeeth has been reported upon another image – ‘A people would be emerging after me-asws in a group, its head would be a woman. They will not succeed, ever! ’ And the camel was the (rallying) flag of the army of Al-Basra, there did not happen to be any flag other than it. When the two armies paused, Ali-asws said: ‘Do not fight the people until they initiate you, for you all, by the Praise of Allah-azwj, are upon an argument, and refrain from them until they initiate you another argument. And when you fight them, so do not attack upon the injured, and when you defeat them, then do not pursue the fleer, nor uncover any nakedness, nor trample the slain, and when you arrive to the people, neither violate a veil nor enter any house, nor seize anything from their wealth. And do not tease any woman with harm and even if they insult your honour, and revile your person, and your righteousness, for they are weak of strength, and the self, and the intellect, and we had been instructed with the refraining from them and they were Polytheists; and if the man were to take the woman with the bludgeon and the stick (by force), he and his posterity would be shamed by it from after him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And the sons of Zabah were killed around the camel, and there did not remain among them anyone except one not benefit with him, and Al-Azd seized its reins, and Ayesha said, ‘Who are you all? ’ They said, ‘(Clan of) Al-Azd’. She said, ‘Combat, for rather the free ones (engage in) combat’, and the camel was shot at with the arrows to the extent that the dome upon it became like it was the hedgehog. Ali-asws said when the people had ended up to the reins of the camel and cut off its forelegs, and the breathing flowed: ‘Call Al-Ashtar for me-asws and Ammar! ’ They came. He-asws said: ‘Go and slay this camel, for they have taken it as a Qiblah (direction)’. They went and there were youths from (clan of) Murad with them, one of them known as Amr Bin Abdullah. They did not stop hitting the people until they ended up to it. Al-Murady struck it upon its heel and it stumbled and it was growling. Then it fell to its side, and the people fled from around it. Ali-asws called out: ‘Cut off the connection of the carriage! ’ Then he-asws said to Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr: ‘Suffice me-asws with your sister’. So, Muhammad carried her until he descended her at the house of Abdullah Bin Khalaf Al-Khuzaie’’. [40]