Hadith 135

or us with killing him-asws? ’ Umar said, ‘Khalid Bin Al-Waleed’. They went to him and said, ‘O Khalid! What is your view regarding a matter we are to assign you upon it? ’ He said, ‘You can assign me upon whatever you so desired to, for by Allah-azwj, even if you were to assign me upon killing the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws, I would do so’. They said, ‘By Allah-azwj! We do not want other than it! ’ He said, ‘Then I am for it’. Abu Bakr said, ‘When you stand during the Salat, Salat Al-Fajr, then stand to his-asws side and the sword should be with you. So, when you have greeted (Salaam), then strike off his-asws neck’. He said, ‘Yes’. The dispersed (having agreed) upon that. Then Abu Bakr thought regarding what he had ordered him with, of killing Ali-asws, and he realised that if he were to do that, severe wars would break out and prolonged calamities, so he regretted upon what he had ordered with. That night of his wasn’t complete until he went to the Masjid, and the Salat had been established. So, he proceeded and prayed Salat (leading) the people, thoughtful, not knowing what he should be saying. And Khalid Bin Al-Waleed came collared with the sword until he stood to the side of Ali-asws, and Ali-asws had discerned part of that. When Abu Bakr was free from his Tashahhud (testimonies), he shouted before he greeted (Salaam), ‘O Khalid! Do not do what I had instructed you with, for if you were to do so, I will kill you! ’ Then he greeted on his right and his left. Ali-asws leapt and seized the collar of Khalid and snatched away the sword from his hand, then wrestled him to the ground and sat upon his chest, and grabbed his-asws sword in order to kill him; and the people of the Masjid gathered to him-asws in order to finish Khalid off from it, but they were not able upon it. Al-Abbas said, ‘Oath him-asws by the right of the grave (of Rasool-Allah-saww) to restrain! ’ They pleaded to him-asws with the grave and he-asws left him, and he separated from him-asws, and he-asws stood up and went to his-asws house; and Al-Zubeyr, and Al-Abbas, and Abu Zarr-ra, and Al-Miqdad-ra, and the Clan of Hashim-asws came and they unsheathed the sword, and they said, ‘By Allah-azwj! We will not end until he-asws speaks and does! ’
And the people differed, and they were turbulent and were disturbed, and the womenfolk of the Clan of Hashim-asws came out shouting and were saying, ‘O enemies of Allah-azwj! How quickly you began the enmity to Rasool-Allah-saww and People-asws of his-saww Household, and for long you have been wanting this from Rasool-Allah-saww! But you were not able upon him-saww but you killed his-saww daughter-asws yesterday, then today you wanted to kill his-asws brother-asws, and son-asws of his-saww uncle-as, and his-saww successor-asws, and father-asws of his-saww children. You are lying, by Lord-azwj of the Kabah, and you will not be arriving to killing him-asws! ’ – until the people were frightened that major Fitna would occur’’. [49]