Hadith 7

ws said, ‘He wanted to change our religion, so we killed him’. Amro said, ‘Are you all not listening? He has acknowledged with the killing of your leader’. Ammar-ra said: ‘And Pharaoh-la had said it before you, Are you all not listening? [26: 25]’. The people of Syria stood up, and there was an army chief for them. They rode their horses and returned, and he delivered to Muawiya what had happened between them He said to him, ‘The Arabs are destroyed if you were to take fearing the black slave’ – meaning Ammar-ra. And Ammar-ra went out to the fighting, and the cavalries formed rows with each other, and the people marched, and there was armour upon Ammar-ra, and he-ra was saying, ‘O you people! The departure is to the Paradise! ’ The people fought a severe battle, the people had not heard the like of it, and the slain were numerous to the extent that a man was tightening the rope of his tent with the (severed) hand of a man or his leg. Al-Ash’as said, ‘I had seen the tents of Siffeen and their porches, and there was neither any tent from these nor any porch, nor any construction, nor any pavilion except it was tied by a (severed) hand of a man or his leg. And Abu Sammak Al-Asady went and took a container of water and a blade of iron, and he went around the slain, and when he saw an injured man, and with him was the last breath, he would sit him up and ask him, ‘Who is Amir Al-Momineen-asws? ’ If he said, ‘Ali-asws’, he would wash the blood away from him and quench him from the water, and if he was silent, he would pain him with the knife until he would die. He was named as ‘Al-Mukhazkhiz’ (the jolter’’. [38]
And from Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir, from Al Shaby, from Al Ahnaf Bin Qays who said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I was to a side of Ammar-ra and we advanced until when we were near from Hashim Bin Utba. Ammar-ra said to him, ‘Attack! May my-ra father-ra and my-ra mother-ra be sacrificed for you! ’ And Ammar-ra looked at a weakness in the right flank. Hashim said to him-ra, ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you-ra, O Ammar-ra! You-ra are a man, fear has seized you-ra in the war, and rather I shall march with the lags with a march and hope I shall attain my needs with that, and if I were to fear, I would not be safe from the destruction’. And Muawiya had said to Amro, ‘Woe be unto you-ra, O Amro! The flags are with Hashim. It is as if he is hurrying with it speedily, and if he were to march with it with a march, it would be a long day for the people of Syria’. Ammar-ra did not cease with it until he-ra attacked. Muawiya saw him and diverted an attack of his companions and the ones who duelled with the people towards him-asws in his area, and in that was a crowd of Abdullah Bin Amro, and with him were two swords. He had collared w