Hadith 167

It is found in ‘Kitab Suleym Bin Qays’ – Aban said, ‘I heard Suleym saying, ‘I battled alongside Ali-asws on the Day of the Camel (Al-Jamal), and we were twelve thousand men, and the companions of the Camel were more than one hundred and twenty thousand men. And with Ali-asws were approximately four thousand from the Emigrants and the Helpers from the ones who had battled alongside with the Rasool-Allah-saww at Badr, and Al-Hudaybiyya, and his-saww other battles, and the rest of the men were the inhabitants of Al-Kufa except for the ones who followed him-asws from the inhabitants of Al-Basra, and Al-Hijaaz, for whom there was no emigration after having embraced Islam after the victory (of Mecca). Most of those four thousand were from the Helpers. No one from the people had been unwilling in pledging allegiance or unwilling to fight, but rather, they had been called, so one hundred and seventy men from the people of Badr responded, and most of them were from the Helpers from the ones who had battled at Ohad and Al-Hudaybiyya, and no one had opposed him-asws. And there was no one from the Emigrants and the Helpers except that he was with him-asws, befriending him-asws and supplicating for him-asws for the winning and the victory, and they loved for him-asws to be successful against the ones who were against him. And neither did he-asws request them nor did he-asws try to convince them, and they had paid the allegiance, and it is not for every human being that he should fight in the Way of Allah-azwj. And only a few contested with him-asws and kept away from him-asws hiding themselves and displaying to him-asws the obedience, apart from a group of three. They paid allegiance to him-asws, then doubted with regards to fighting alongside him-asws, and they sat in their houses – Muhammad Bin Muslama, and Sa’d Bin Abu Waqqas, and Ibn Umar. And Usama Bin Zayd submitted after that and was happy, and supplicated for Ali-asws, and repented to him-asws, and renounced his-asws enemies, and testified that he-asws was on the truth, and the ones opposed to him-asws were accursed and those whose blood is permissible to be shed’’. Aban said, ‘Suleym said, ‘When Amir Al-Momineen-asws met the people of Al-Basra (Battle of the Camel), Ali-asws called out to Al-Zubayr: ‘O Abu Abdullah, come out to me-asws’. His companions said to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws, you-asws are going out to Al-