Hadith 1

il he rescued himself when he was half dead, after having being seized by the neck, and there did not remain from him apart from the last breath. In this way he escaped in panic. So, leave Quraysh from you and their sprinting into the straying, and their wandering in the wretchedness, and their leaping into the destruction, for they have united upon warring (against) me-asws, like their uniting upon warring Rasool-Allah-saww before me-asws. May Quraysh be Recompensed on my-asws behalf the Recompense. They have cut-off my-asws kinship and have stripped me-asws of the authority of the son-saww of my-asws uncle-as. And as for what you asked about of my-asws view regarding the battle. My-asws view is that I-asws should fight the cunning until I-asws meet Allah-azwj. The abundance of the people around me-asws does not increase me-asws in honour, nor does their dispersing from me-asws makes me-asws lonely, nor reckon the son-asws of your father-as to be pleading, scared and even if the people submit him-asws (to the enemy), nor with he-asws accept to be a weak person, nor be chained by reins to the leader, nor bend the back for the rider to sit upon, but he-asws is as the brother of the clan of Suleym said’ – and he-asws mentioned the couplets’’. [12]
I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is reported by Ibn Abi Al Hadeed, from Kitab al Gharaat of Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Saqafy, just as he had reported it in the original of his book, it is reported by his chain, from Jundab Al Azdy, from his father having said, ‘The first raid which took place at Al-Iraq was the raid of Al-Zahhak Bin Qays, after the (arbitration of) the two judges, and before the battle of Al-Nahrawan, and that is because Muawiya, when it reached him that Ali-asws, after the incident of the two judges, he-asws was coming to face him, that terrified him. He went out of Damascus in an army and sent a message to the masses of Syria. It was shouted therein, ‘Ali-asws has travelled towards you! ’
And he wrote out one copy to them and it was read out to the people, ‘As for after, we had written an agreement between us and Ali-asws, and had stipulated conditions in it, and we had got two men to judge upon us and him-asws with judgment of the Book, not transgressing it, and we made a Pact of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Covenant upon the one who broke the pact. And the judgment was not accomplished, and my judgment which was judged was to affirm me (as ruler of Syria), and that his-asws judgment was to vacate him-asws (from being a caliph), and he-asws is coming to you all as an oppressor. So the one who breaks, is rather breaking against himself, [48: 10]. Prepare for the war with an excellent preparation, and equip with the tools of the battle, and Advance lightly and heavily, [9: 41], carefully and actively. Allah-azwj will Ease for us and you to the righteous deeds! ’
The people gathered to him from every village, and they wanted the travel to Siffeen. He consulted them and they differed in that. They remained reverberating the view for two days or three, until t