Hadith 309

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is reported by Ibn Abu Al Hadeed in the commentary of (the book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’, from Muhammad Bin Jareer Al Tabari, author of the history, ‘Zur’a Bin Al-Burj Al-Taie said to Amir Al-Momineen-asws, ‘But by Allah-azwj! If you-asws don’t repent from your-asws arbitration with the men, we will kill you-asws, seeking by that the Face of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Pleasure! ’
Ali-asws said to him: ‘Misery be to you! How wretched you are! It is as if I-asws am with you having been slain, the winds are blowing over you’. It happened like what he-asws had said’’. [130]
And Al Madainy has mentioned in the book ‘Al Khawarij’ saying, ‘When Ali-asws went out to the people of the river (Al-Nahrwan), and man from his-asws companions came back from the ones who were at his-asws vanguard and informed him-asws that the people had crossed the river’. He-asws made him swear three times, during all of these he was saying, ‘Yes (they have)’. He-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! They have not crossed, and they will never be crossing, and their killing place down river’. The two (other) horsemen came, all of them sprinting and saying (the same). But he-asws care about their words, until it appeared opposite to what they had been saying’’. [131]
And it is mentioned by Muhammad Bin Yazeed Al Mubarrad in the book ‘Al Kaamil’ –
‘Ali-asws said to his-asws companions on the day of (battle of) Al-Nahrwan: ‘Attack upon them, for by Allah-azwj, not ever ten of you would be killed, nor will ten of them be safe’. He-asws attacked upon them and ground them with a grinding. Nine from his-asws companions were killed, and eight from the Kharijites escaped’’. [132]
And it is reported by entirety of the people of Seerah, all of them, that when Ali-asws had ground the people, he-asws sought Zul Saday with an intense search, and the slain were turned over to reveal the inside, but he-asws was not able upon (finding) him. That worsened him-asws, and he-asws went on to say: ‘By Allah-azwj! Neither am I-asws lying nor have I-asws been lied to. Seek the man, and he is surely among the people! ’
And he-asws did not cease to search for him until he-asws found him, and he was a man of a deficient hand, as if it was a breast in his chest’’. [133]
And it is reported by Ibrahim Bin Dezeel in the book ‘Siffeen’, from Al Amsh, from Zayd Bin Wahab who said, ‘When Ali-asws stabbed them with the spears, he-asws said: ‘Seek Zul Saday! ’ They sought him with an intense search until they found him being alone in the ground beneath some slain people. Then came with him and there, he was a man having like the hair of the cat’. Ali-asws exclaimed Takbeer, and the people exclaimed Takbeer along with him-asws, rejoicing with that’’. [134]
And it is reported as well from Muslim Al Zaby, from Habbat Al Urny who said, ‘He was a black man of stinky smell. For him was a hand like the breast of a woman. When it was extended, it would be longer than the other hand, and when it was left, it gathered and