Hadith 12

pense him the Recompense of the oppressors’. He said, ‘And the people raised their hands on that day upon it, and in the Masjid was Ifaq Bin Shurjeel Bin Abu Ruhm Al-Tameemi, and aged old man, and he was counted to be from the ones who had testified against Hujr Bin Aday until Muawiya killed him. Ifaq said, ‘Against whom are the people supplicating? ’ They said, ‘Against Yazeed Bin Hujaya’. He said, ‘May your hands be soiled! Is it against our nobleman you are supplicating! ’ They stood up and beat him until he almost died. And Yazeed Bin Khasfa stood up, and he was from the Shias of Ali-asws. He said, ‘Leave the son of my uncle for me! ’ Ali-asws said: ‘Leave for the man the son of his uncle’. The people left him, and Ziyad grabbed his hand and took him out from the Masjid, and went on to walk with him and wiping the dust from his face, and Ifaq was saying, ‘By Allah-azwj! I do not love what evil you had done and desired. By Allah-azwj! I do not love you what did not differ, the particle and the red hot area’. And Ziyad said to him, ‘That is more harmful to you. That is more evil for you’. And from the ones who separated from him was Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman Bin Masoud Al-Saqafi. And from them is Al Najashy the poet. And from them is Al-Najashi the poet. And the reason for the separation of Al-Najashy is that he drank the wine at Al-Kufa during the first day from a month of Ramazan. They came with him to Ali-asws. He-asws made him stand in his trouser and struck him eighty (lashes), then increased it by twenty. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! As for the legal penalty, I have recognised it, but what are these extra? ’ He-asws said: ‘For your audacity upon Allah-azwj, and your breaking your Fast during a month of Ramazan’. He was angered and joined with Muawiya and satirised Ali-asws (in his poems)’’. [37]
And the author of the book ‘Kitab Al Gharaat’ said, ‘When Ali-asws established the legal penalty on Al-Najashy, the Yememite was angered. Tariq Bin Abdullah entered to see him-asws. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! We are not used to see that the people of disobedience and the obedience, and the people of sectarianism and the community, in the presence of the just ruler and the Mine of merit, are alike in the recompense, until we saw what happened from your dealings with the brother of Al-Haris. So, our chests are angered and our affairs are scattered, and you are carrying us upon the seriousness which we saw the way to the Fire for the one who indulges in it’. He-asws said: and it is certainly a difficult thing except upon the humble ones [2: 45]. O brother of Nahd! And is he except a man from the Muslims having violated a sanctity from the Sanctities of Allah-azwj? ! Thus, we-asws establish a legal penalty upon him for it would be an expiation. Allah-azwj the Exalted is Saying: and do not let hatred of a people make you unjust; and be just, it is closer to the piety, and fear Allah, surely Allah is Aware with what you are doing [5: 8]’. When the night shield, he and Al-Najashy sneaked out to Muawiya’