Hadith 54

He said, ‘This is for you all’. They said, ‘We would not take it except with a price’. He said, ‘Oh how strange! You are killing the like of Abdullah Bin Khabab and are not accepting dates of a palm tree? ’
And it is reported by Abu Ubeyda. He said, ‘One of the Kharijites was stabbed on the day of Al-Nahrawan, and he walked among the spearmen, and he was brandishing his sword, until he arrived to his stabber, and killed him, and he was reciting, and I hastened on to You, Lord, for You to be Pleased’ [20: 84]’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Ali-asws interrogated them for the killing of Khabab, and they acknowledged with it. He-asws said: ‘Separate out the battalions, so I-asws can listen to your words, battalion by battalion’. The battalions were listed and every battalion acknowledged with what the other one acknowledged with, from the killing of Ibn Khabab, and they said, ‘We shall kill you-asws just as we have killed him’. He-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! If (all) the people of the world were to acknowledge with his killing, like this and I-asws was able upon them, I-asws would kill them (all)! ’ Then he-asws turned towards his-asws companion. He-asws said: ‘Be severe upon them for I-asws will be the first one to be severe upon them’, and he-asws attacked with (his-asws sword) Zulfiqar, a severe attack, three times. During each attack, he-asws was striking with it until its blade became crooked. Then he-asws would come out and even it by his-asws knees, then attack with it, until he-asws had annihilated them’’. [55]
And it is reported by Muhammad Bin Habeeb who said, ‘
‘Ali-asws addressed the Kharijites on the day of the river. He-asws said to them: ‘We-asws are People-asws of Prophet-hood, and place of the Message, and interchange of the Angels, and origin of mercy, and mine of knowledge and the wisdom. We-asws are horizons of Al-Hijaz. With us-asws catches up the slow one, and to us-asws returns the repentant. O you people! I-asws am a warner to you all that you will become fallen in the belly of this valley! ’’[56]
Kitab al Gharaat of Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Saqafi, from Ibrahim Bin Al Mubarak, and Ibrahim Bin Al Abbas, from Bakr Bin Isa, from Ismail Bin Khalid Al Bajali, from Amro Bin Qays, from Al Mihal Bin Amro, from Zirr Bin Hubeysh who said, ‘I heard Ali-asws saying: ‘I-asws blinded the eye of Fitna, and had it not been for me-asws, the people of Al-Nahrawan would not have been fought, nor the companions of the camel, and had I-asws not been afraid of you becoming careless and leave the deeds, I-asws would have informed you all with that which Allah-azwj had Decreed upon the tongue of your Prophet-saww, for the one who fights them being insightful of their straying, recognising of the guidance which we-asws are upon’’. [57]
And from Ubeyd Bin Suleyman Al Nakhaie, from Saeed Al Ash’ari who said, ‘Ali-asws, when he-asws travelled to Al-Nahrawan, placed a man from Al-Bakhaie called Hany Bin Howzah to be in charge. He wrote to Ali-asws, ‘(The clans of) Ghany and Bahila are causing discord and they are supplicating to Allah-azwj against you that your-asws enemies win against you-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Ali-asws wrote to him: ‘Make them a