Hadith 59

d castle at it. We met them and they were nearby from the mountain. We formed rows to them, then we went towards them. Ma’qal made Yazeed Bin Ma’qal to be (a commander) upon his right flank, and Minjab Bin Rashid upon his left flank, and Al-Najy paused with the ones from the Arabs with him, and they were a right flank, and made the people of the city and the crowds, and ones who wanted to break the taxes, and a group from the Kurds as the left flank. And Ma’qal travelled among us, inciting us and saying, ‘O servants of Allah-azwj! Do not initiate the people, and close your eyes, and reduce the talking, and settle yourselves upon the stabbing and the striking, and received glad tidings of the mighty Recompense in your battle. But rather, you are fighting a group of deviants, and a crowd refusing the taxes, and thieves, and Kurds. So, what are you waiting for? When you attack, so be severe with the severity of one man! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘He passed by the rows speaking to them and saying these words until when he had passed by the people, all of them, he came back and paused in the middle of the row, in the centre, and we looked at him what he was doing. He moved his flag with two movements, then attacked during the third, and we attacked along with him, all of us. By Allah-azwj! Not an hour had come for us until they had turned around and were defeated, and we had killed seventy Bedouins from the clan of Najiya, and some of the Arabs from the ones who had followed him, and approximately three hundred from the crowds and the Kurds. And Al-Khirit went out defeated until he joined upon with a coast from the coasts of the sea, and at it was a large group of his people. He did not cease to travel among them and calling them to oppose Ali-asws, and adorning for them separating from him-asws, and informing them that the guidance is in battling him-asws and opposing him-asws, until a lot of people from them followed him. And Ma’qal Bin Qays stayed at the land of Al-Ahwaz and wrote to Amir Al-Momineen-asws of the victory, and I was the one who arrived with the letter to him-asws, and it was in the letter, ‘To the servant of Allah-azwj Ali-asws, Amir Al-Momineen, from Ma’qal Bin Qays. Greetings unto you-asws! I praise Allah-azwj to you-asws Who, there is no god except He-azwj. As for after, we met the two deviant groups and they had prevailed upon us with the Polytheists, and we killed a lot of people from them, and we did not leave your-asws methods among them. We did not kill any fleer from them, nor captured (anyone), and did not attacked upon anyone injured from them, and Allah-azwj Helped you-asws and the Muslims, and the Praise is for Allah-azwj, Lord-azwj of the worlds’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When I arrive with the letter to Ali-asws, he-asws read it out to his-asws companions and consulted them regarding the view. The generality of them united their view upon one word. They said, ‘We view that you-asws should write to Ma’qal Bin Qays to p