Hadith 415

And from Umar Bin Sa’ad, from Suleyman Al Amsh, from Ibrahim Al Hajary, from Al Qa’qa’a Bin Al Abrad who said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I was standing nearby Ali-asws at Siffeen, event of Thursday, and Mazhij had converged, and they were in the right flank of Ali-asws, and A’al, and Juzam, and Lakham, and Al-Ashariyoin, and they were insightful regarding in fighting Ali-asws. I heard a sound from their battle which wasn’t from the sounds of the rumbling of the mountain, nor a thunderbolt. It was grievous for them in the chest from that sound, and Ali-asws was saying: ‘There neither might nor strength except with Allah-azwj. The Helper is Allah-azwj! ’
Then he-asws got up when the standing on of the supporters stood up, and he-asws said: ‘Our Lord! Decide between us and our people with the Truth, and You are the best of the deciders’’ [7: 89]. So, no, by Allah-azwj! There is no holding back between us than them except Allah-azwj, Lord-azwj of the worlds’, near to a third of the night, and on that day the flag-bearers of the Arabs were killed, and there were three strikes in the head of Ali-asws, and two strikes in his-asws face’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Muawiya wrote two letters, one of them to Abu Ayoub Al-Ansary and wrote in it, ‘Neither will Shayba forget of her excuse nor the killer of its first born’. Abu Ayoub did not know what it was, so he came with it to Ali-asws and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws, ‘Muawiya wrote a letter to me, I do not know what it is’. He-asws said: ‘This is an example he has struck for you saying, ‘Do not forget that which Shayba did not forget’, it is that you should not forget of her excusing