Hadith 28

not want it like this, O Rasool-Allah-saww! ’ Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘How do you want it? Suggest, and do not suggest the punishment, for Allah-azwj has Prescribed the favouring in everything, to the extent in the killing (as well)’. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! I do not suggest the punishment except upon one, and he is the one who transgressed upon this companion of our, when he restrained from him out of respect for Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and his hypocrisy to his brethren from the Jews, for he is from them. They should be brought one by one from them, (and) we would strike him with a slender sword, except that one, for he would be punished by it’. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O Sa’ad! It is not for one to suggest false punishment upon an enemy. You have suggested punishment rightfully’. Sa’ad said to the youth, ‘Arise with this sword of yours to your counterpart, the one who transgressed upon you, and retaliate from him! ’
He-asws said: ‘He proceeded to him and did not cease striking him with his sword until he had struck twenty-seven strikes – just as he had struck him (before). He said, ‘This is the number what he had struck me with, so it suffices me’. Then he struck off his neck. Then the youth went on to strike off the necks of the people at a distance from him, and left the people who were nearby distance from him. Then he stopped and said, ‘I leave it for you’. Sa’d said, ‘Give me the sword’. So he gave it to him, and he did not differentiate anyone, and killed every one who was near to him – until he had killed a number of them. Then he stopped and threw down the sword and said, ‘I leave it to you all’. So the people did not cease to kill them until they had killed the last one of them. Rasool-Allah-saww said to the youth: ‘What is the matter you killed the ones at a distance from you and left the ones nearby? ’ He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! I avoided the relatives and took to the strangers’. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘And there were the one who weren’t your relatives and you left them’. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! There were hands (of favours) for them upon me during the pre-Islamic period, so I disliked that I should take on their killing, and for them were those hands (of favours) upon me’. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘But you, if you had sought intercession to us-saww regarding them, we-saww would have interceded for you’. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! I was not going to stave the Punishment of Allah-azwj from His-azwj enemies, and even though I dislike it to take it one with myself’. Then Rasool-Allah-saww said to Sa’ad: ‘And you! So what is the matter you did not differentiate anyone (and killed everyone)? ’ He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! I was inimical to them for the Sake of Allah-azwj, and I hated them for the Sake of Allah-azwj. So I did not want to consider other than you-saww and other than your-saww love’. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O Sa’ad! You are from those who would not be taking for the Sake of Allah-azwj, an accusation from an accuser’. So when he was free from the last of them, his wound burst out and he died. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘This is a friend from the friends of Allah-azwj truly. The Throne of the Beneficent Shook at his death, and his house in the Paradise is superior than the world and whatever is in it, up to the rest of whatever would happen to be in it. Allah-azwj would Gift him what He-azwj would Gift him’’. [27]