Hadith 155

ou leaving away from us? Did the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws cast a spell on you? ’ He said, ‘No, but whatever the times had made me forget, and he-asws argued against me with my allegiance to him-asws’. Talha said, ‘No, but you are a coward and he-asws blew a spell on you’. Al-Zubeyr said, ‘I am not a coward, but I was reminded, so I remembered’. Abdullah said to him, ‘O father! You came with these two large armies until when they have chosen the war you are saying ‘I should leave them and go away’. What will the Quraysh say tomorrow at Al-Medina? Allah-azwj! Allah-azwj, O father! Do not let the enemies gloat nor shame yourself with the defeat before the fighting’. He said, ‘O my son! What can I do and I have already sworn an oath with Allah-azwj that I will not fight against him-asws? ’ He said to him, ‘Expiate from your oath and do not spoil our matter’. Al-Zubeyr said, ‘My black slave is free for the Face of Allah-azwj as an expiation for my oath’. Then he returned with them for the fighting. Hammam Al-Saqafi said (a poem) regarding the deed of Al-Zubeyr and what he had done and his freeing his slave, in fighting against Ali-asws, ‘Will he free a black slave and disobey his Prophet-saww? He was strayed from his intent of guidance, then impeded. Is he meaning by this the sincerity, and the righteousness and the piety? He will soon know one day who is righteous and sincere. He hovers between the straying and the guidance, and he hovers, one who disobeys the Prophet-saww and frees (a slave), and one who is with shame. He exclaims greatness righteously of his Lord-azwj and ratifies. Is it regarding the truth that he disobeyed the Prophet-saww with impertinence? And he freed himself from the disobedience and freed a slave, like the flush of water of the mirage leading him. Indeed! In the straying is whatever he pours and scoops out’’. [30]