Hadith 397

And from Zayd Bin Wahab, ‘When Ali-asws saw his-asws right flank to have returned to its position and its group, and the ones in front of it had been exposed, he-asws went until he-asws ended up to them. He-asws said: ‘I-asws have seen your alignments and wandering around away from your rows. The treacherous tyrannical Bedouins of the people of Syria have surpassed you, and you are the important ones of the Arabs, and the top of the great ones, and are spending the nights with recitations of the Quran, and are the people of the call and the truth. Then you strayed, erring. Had it not been for your fighting (again) after your turning back, and your attacking after your wandering, it would be obligated upon you all what is obligated upon the fleer on the day of the marching, and you were in what I-asws view as being from the destroyed ones. And it would ease upon me-asws part of my-asws feelings, and heal part of my-asws discomfort if I-asws were to see you all with another, gripping them just as they had gripped you, and you could remove them away from their ranks just as they had removed you, killing them with the swords, the first of them riding like the last of them like the camels returning thirsty. As for now, so be patient, the tranquillity shall descend upon you and conviction will affirm you, and let the defeated ones know that he has Angered his Lord-azwj, and peril of his self, and in the fleeing is the Anger of Allah-azwj upon him, and the humiliation is necessary upon him, and life to be spoilt upon him, and that the fleer will not be increased in his life by the fleeing, nor would he please his Lord-azwj. Death of a rightful man before coming to these characteristics is better than the pleasure with the pretending with it, and the persisting upon these’’. Nasr said, ‘Abu Ka’ab Al Khas’amy, chief of (clan of) Khas’am of Al-Iraq, attached upon (clan of) Khas’am of Syria, and they fought a severe battle. Abu Ka’ab went on to say to his companions, ‘O community of Khas’am! Strike’. i. e. strike ‘Al-Jazma’, and it is the anklet. Meaning strike them in their markets. Shimr Bin Abdullah attacked upon Abu Ka’ab, stabbed him and killed him. Then he left crying and saying, ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you Abu Ka’ab! I have killed you in obedience of a people. You are closer to me in relationship and more beloved to me than them as a person, but by Allah-azwj, I do not know what I should be saying, and I cannot see the Satan-la except and he-la has tempted us, and I do not see Quraysh except as having played with us’. Ka’ab Bin Abu Ka’ab leapt up to the flag of his father and grabbed it. He closed his eyes and laid him down. Then Shureyh Bin Malik took it, and the people fought under it until approximately eighty men were killed around their flag, and similar to that (number) were killed from (clan of) Khas’am of Syria. Then Shureyh returned it to Ka’ab Bin Abu Ka’ab’’. [20]