Hadith 409

he bearer of the black flag facing me-asws? ’, and he gestured to a flag of Amro Bin Al-Aas. I had fought it at times with Rasool-Allah-saww, and these here are (people of) Rabie. Neither are they the best of them, nor am I the most righteous of them, but it (black flag) is their most evil and most immoral. I witnessed Badr, and Ohad, and day of Hunayn, or is there a father of yours who had witnessed it and he can inform it to you? ’ He said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Surely our position today is upon the position of Rasool-Allah-saww on the day of Badr, and day of Ohad, and day of Hunayn, and their position is upon a position of the flags of the Polytheists from the confederates. Do you see this army and the ones in it? By Allah-azwj! I would love it if the entirety of the ones in it with Muawiya, from the ones who want to fight us, to separate to that which we are upon, they would be one creature, and I would cut it and slaughter it. By Allah-azwj! Their blood in their entirety is more permissible than the blood of a sparrow. Do you see the blood of the sparrow as being prohibited? ’ He said, ‘No, but (it is) permissible. He said, ‘So, they are (also) permissible like that. Do you see me to have clarified it? ’ He said, ‘You have clarified’. He said, ‘Choose whichever of that you love’. Then man left. Ammar called him, then said, ‘We will soon be striking you with their swords until the false ones from you doubt, and they said, ‘If they had not been upon the truth, they would not have prevailed upon us’. By Allah-azwj! They are not upon the truth even what could be a speech upon an eye of a fly. By Allah-azwj! If they were to strike us with their swords until we reach the branches of the palm tree, we would still know we are upon truth and they are upon falsehood’’. [33]