Hadith 9

so and so, and so and so stood up. They exerted the Jihad and were excellent in the words, and we know that the one who urges with his speech if foremost in urging with his deeds. And didn’t one of them sat in ambush for him-asws in the dark archway and stabbed him‑asws with a pickaxe which was with him, hitting his-asws thigh, and split it, until it arrived to the bone, and he-asws snatched it from his hand, and he-asws was carried to Al-Madain, and upon it (as a governor) was Sa’ad Bin Masoud, an uncle of Al-Mukhtar, and Amir Al-Momineen‑asws had made him in charge of it. He-asws entered his house. Al-Mukhtar consulted to his uncle that he should bind/arrest him‑asws and travel with him to Muawiya upon that he would give him the taxes of Jowha for a year. But he refused to him and said to Al-Mukhtar, ‘May Allah-azwj Uglify your view! I am an office bearer of his-asws father-asws, and he-asws had entrusted me and ennobled me, and you want to give me the affliction of his-asws father-asws? Have you forgotten Rasool-Allah-saww and are not preserving him-saww regarding the son-asws of his-saww daughter-asws and his‑saww beloved? ’
Sa’ad Bin Masoud came to him-asws with a physician and stood upon him until he-asws was cured, and transferred him to Al-Madain. And he (Al-Hassan-asws) had answered Hujr Bin Aday Al-Kindy when he had said to him, ‘You‑asws have blackened the faces of the Momineen! ’ He-asws said: ‘Everyone does not love what you love, nor does he view like your view, and rather I-asws did what I-asws did for the remaining (alive) to be upon you all’’. Ibn Al-Jowzy said in ‘Al-Tazkira’ Page 112, ‘Al Shaby said, ‘While Al-Hassan-asws was in his‑asws tent at Al-Madain, and Qays Bin Sa’ad had gone ahead, when a caller called out among the soldiers, ‘Indeed! Qays Bin Sa’ad has been killed, so disperse! ’ They dispersed to the tents of Al-Hassan-asws and they snatched him-asws until they grabbed the carpet which was under him‑asws, and a man stabbed him-asws with a sharp arrow which was with him, and bled him‑asws. His-asws desire to enter into the community increase and he-asws feared from them. So, he‑asws entered the cabin which was in Al-Madain at Al-Bayza’a, and the governor upon Al-Madain was Sa’ad Bin Masoud Al-Saqafy, an uncle of Al-Mukhtar. Ali-asws had placed him in charge. Al-Mukhtar said to him, and he was a youth, ‘Is it for you to be in the riches and the nobility? ’ He said, ‘And what is that? ’ He said, ‘Bind Al-Hassan-asws and submit him-asws to Muawiya’. Sa’ad said to him, ‘May Allah-azwj Kill you! Should I pounce upon a son-asws of Rasool-Allah‑azwj and bind him-asws and submit him-asws to a son of Hinda? I would be an evil man if I were to do it’. Ibn Sa’ad mentioned in ‘Al Tabaqaat’ – ‘Al Mukhtar said to his uncle Sa’ad, ‘It is for you to be in a matter the Arabs would prevail with it? ’ He said, ‘And what is it? ’ He said, ‘Leave me to strike off the neck of this one’ – meaning Al-Hassan-asws – ‘And go with it to Muawiya! ’’ He said to him, ‘May Allah-azwj Uglify you! This will not be their affliction, People-asws of the Household, with us’’. And it is reported by Abbas Bin Hisham, from his father, from Abu Mikhnaf, from Abu Al Kanoud Abdul Rahman Bin Ubeyd who said, ‘When Al-Hassan-asws pledged Allegiance to Muawiya, the Shias came converging revealing the feeling of being sorry and the regret upon leaving the fighting. They came out to him‑asws after two years from the day he-asws had pledged to Muawiya. Suleyman Bin Surad Al-Khuzaie said to him-asws,