Hadith 117

w him off, grabbed the whip and hit him, then said to him: ‘This isn’t for what you did with me-asws, but you came to the one who is weaker than me-asws, and you did with him like this, so you are responsible’. He said, ‘And one day he-asws sheltered in a shop from the rain. The owner of the shop forbade him-asws. Then establishing the legal penalty, and even if it would upon himself-asws and his-asws children. The people held back from more than from the noble people, and the famous, and he-asws went ahead to with establishing the legal penalties. Have you heard any nobleman the legal penalty had been established upon him, other than by him-asws? From them were Ubeydullah Bin Umar Bin Al-Khattab, and from them was Qudamah Bin Maz’un, and from them was Al-Waleed Bin Uqba Bin Abu Mueet. They had drunk the wine, so the people held back from them and they left, and he-asws hit them by his-asws hand where he-asws feared that the legal penalties might be invalidated. Then he-asws neglected the concealment upon his-asws (step) daughter Umm Kulsoom-as. One of the governors has gifted Amber, so he-asws ascended the pulpit and said: ‘O you people! Umm Kulsoom-as is a daughter-as of Ali-asws, if she has betrayed you with Amber, and I-asws swear by Allah-azwj! If she-as had taken it, I-asws would have cut her-as from where I-as would cut your women! ’
Then the Quran and what is found therein from the battles of the Prophet-saww, from what is Revealed from the Quran, and his-asws merits, and what the people are narrating from what Rasool-Allah-saww had stood with, from his-asws virtues which cannot be counted. Then they united upon that he-asws did not rebut upon Rasool-Allah-saww any word at all and was not cowardice from any place he-saww had sent him-asws. And he-asws used to serve him-saww during his-saww journeys, and fill his-asws waterskin, and his-saww canteen, and pitch his-saww tent, and he-asws would stand by his-saww head with the sword until he-saww would instruct him-asws with sitting down, and the leaving. And he-saww had sent more than one (person) from Al-Juhfa to search for water, and the water was difficult upon him. They left and did not come back with anything. Then he-saww sent him-asws with the water-skin and he-asws came back to him-saww with the water like the fresh water, and the spirits had met him-asws. The Prophet-saww knew of that and he-saww said: ‘That is Jibraeel-as among a thousand, and Mikaeel-as among a thousand, and Israfeel-as among a thousand’. The Seyyid, the poet, said (a poem), ‘I mean the one who was greeted in the night, upon him-asws being Mikaeel-as and Jibraeel-as. Jibraeel-as among a thousand, and Mikaeel-as among a thousand, and Israfeel-as following them-as’. Then the people had entered to see him-asws, one day before he-asws was martyred. They all testified that he-asws had been plentiful with their war booty, and had been aloof from their world, and did not take bribes regarding in their judgments, and did not take from the public treasury of the Muslims what equated to charity and did not consume from the wealth himself-asws except in accordance to provision. And they all testified that the remotest of the people from him-asws in (worldly) status, was their closest from him-asws’’. [236]