Hadith 147

is narrated to us by Muhammad Bin Abdullah, from Al Madainy who said, ‘Amro Bin Al-Aas came with an aim, aiming for Egypt. Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr stood among the people. He praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj, then said, ‘As for after, O community of Muslims! The group, those who violating the sanctity and overcoming the land of straying, have installed the enmity for you all, and they have travelled to you with the armies. The one who intends the Paradise and the Forgiveness, let him go out to the group and let him fight them for the Sake of Allah-azwj. Delegate, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on you, with Kinanah Bin Bishr and the ones answering with him from (the clan of) Kinda! ’ Then he delegated with him a thousand men, and Muhammad stayed behind among the two groups. And Amro Bin Al-Aas faced Kinanah, and he was upon the vanguard of Muhammad. When Amro was close from Kinanah, released battalions with him, battalion after battalion. No battalion from the battalions of the people of Syrian came to him except he was severe upon it with the ones with him, and he struck them until they joined up with Amro. He did that repeatedly. When Amro saw that, he sent a message to Muawiya Bin Khadeej Al-Kindy. He came to him among a similar large number. When Kinanah saw that army, he descended from his horse and his companions descended with him. He struck them with his sword, and he was saying, and it was not for a soul that it should be dying except by the Permission of Allah, being an Ordained term; [3: 145]. He did not cease striking them with the sword until he was martyred, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him. When Kinanah was killed, Ibn Al-Aas came towards Muhammad and his companions had separated from him. Muhammad came out and continued in the path until he ended up to a ruin and sheltered to it, and Amro Bin Al-Aas came until he entered the pavilion. And Ibn Khadeej came out in seeking Muhammad until he ended up to the access-way which was off the road. He asked them, ‘Did anyone pass by you did not recognise? ’ They said, ‘No’. One of them said, ‘I had entered those ruins and there I was with a seated man’. Ibn Khadeej said, ‘Him, him, by the Lord-azwj of the Kabah! ’ They went sprinting until they entered upon Muhammad and they brought him out, and he had almost died of thirst. They came with him to around the pavilion. His brother Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Bakr leapt towards Amro Bin Al-Aas, and he in his army, he said, ‘No, by Allah-azwj! My brother will not be killed in combat! Send a message to Muawiya Bin Khadeej and forbid him from killing him’. Amro Bin Al-Aas sent a message to Muawiya, ‘Come to me with Muhammad! ’ Muawiya said, ‘You killed Kinanah Bin Bishr, son of my uncle, and I should free Muhammad? Far be it! Are your Kafirs better than those, or is there an exemption for you all in the Psalms? [54: 43]’. Muhammad said to them, ‘Quench me a drop of water! ’ Ibn Khadeej said to him, ‘May Allah-azwj not Quench me forever if I were to quench you a drop. You prevented Usman from drinking the water until you killed him thirsty, deprived, so (now) Allah-azwj is Quenching him from the Seale