Hadith 424

Nasr said, ‘And it is narrated to me by Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir, from Aamir, from Sa’sa Bin Sowhan, and Al Haris Bin Ad’ham, ‘Abraha Bin Al-Sabah stood up and he said, ‘Woe be unto you, O community of the people of Al-Yemen! By Allah-azwj! I think Allah-azwj has Permitted your annihilation. Woe be unto you all! Vacate between these two men and let them fight each other, so whichever of the two kills his companion, we shall incline with him altogether’. Abraha was from the companions of Muawiya. That reached Ali-asws. He-asws said: ‘Abraha Bin Al-Sabah spoke the truth. By Allah-azwj! I-asws have not heard any address since I-asws arrived at Syria. I-asws am with intense joy from me-asws with this’. And the speech of Abraha reached Muawiya, so he delayed the last of the rows and said to the ones around him, ‘By Allah-azwj! I think he has been injured in his intellect’. The people of Syria vibrated saying, ‘By Allah-azwj! Abraha is our best in religion, and view, and prowess, but Muawiya dislikes duelling Ali-asws. And on that day Ali-asws duelled Urwa Bin Dawood Al-Dimashqy. He said, ‘If Muawiya dislikes duelling you, O Abu Al-Hassan-asws, then come to me (for it)! ’ Ali-asws advanced towards him and attacked upon him and killed him, then said: ‘O Urwa! Go and inform your people! But, by the One-azwj Who Sent Muhammad-saww with the truth! You are (now) witnessing the Fire and become from the regretful’. Muawiya looked at him-asws, and he was standing upon the hill. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj! Ali-asws had called me to the duel until I was embarrassed from Quraysh, and rather I intended by that for Bisr Bin Artah to duel to him-asws’. Bisr came to duel him-asws, then regretted and was too embarrassed from the withdrawing. Ali-asws came, being cut off from his-asws cavalry and with him-asws was Al-Ashtar, and he-asws was intending the hill. Bisr faced him-asws near from the hill. He-asws stabbed him, and he-asws did not recognise him. He saved it by his (lifting) leg, and his private parts were uncovered. Ali-asws turned away from him, and Al-Ashtar called out to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! It is Bisr! ’ He-asws said: ‘Leave him, may Allah-azwj Curse him! ’
And a nephew of Bisr attacked upon Ali-asws. Al-Ashtar stabbed him and broke his back, and Bisr got up from his stabbing by Ali-asws and turned his horse around. Muawiya said to him, ‘Allah-azwj has let Amro triumph more than you! ’ And it was so after that, whenever Bisr met the cavalry in which was Ali-asws, would isolate in an area and protect the horsemen of the people of Syria from Ali-asws’’. [49]