Hadith 238

(The book) ‘Al Irshad’ – From the Ahadeeth referred with the cause of his-asws being killed, and how the matter flowed regarding that, is what is reported by a group from the people of Seerah, from them being Abu Mikhnaf, and Ismail Bin Rashid Abu Hashim Al Wafaie, and Abu Amro Al Saqafy and others, ‘A number of Kharijites gathered at Makkah and they mentioned the governors and faulted them, and they faulted their deeds, and they mentioned the people of Al-Nahrwan and invoked mercy upon them. They said to each other, ‘If we could sell ourselves to Allah-azwj and go to the leaders of straying. We should demand their guild and the servants, and the country can be at rest from them, and we can retaliate for the martyrs at Al-Nahrwan’. They made a pact upon that at the expiration of Al-Hajj. Abdul Rahman Bin Muljim-la, may Allah-azwj Curse him-la, said, ‘I-la shall suffice you with (killing) Ali-asws! ’ And Al-Bark Bin Ubeydullah Al Tameemi said, ‘I shall suffice you with (killing) Muawiya! ’ And Amro Bin Bakr Al-Tameemi said, ‘I shall suffice you with (killing) Amro Bin Al-Aas’. And they made an agreement upon that and they harmonised upon the loyalty and the date being the month of Ramazan, during the nineteenth night from it. Then they dispersed. Ibn Muljim-la, may Allah-azwj Curse him-la came, and he-la was in Kinda for a number (of days) until he-la arrived at Al-Kufa. He-la met his-la companions at it. He-la concealed his-la matter from them fearing that something from it mighty get publicised. He-la was in that (situation) when he-asws (Amir Al-Momineen-asws) visited a man from his-la companions from Taym Al-Rabab. It so happened that Qatam Bint Al-Akhzar Al Tameemi was with him, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws had killer her father and her brother at Al-Nahrwan, and she was from the most beautiful women of her time. When Ibn Al-Muljim-la saw her, he-la passionately fell in love with her and his-la fascination with her intensified, and he-la asked regarding marrying her, and proposed to her. She said to him-la, ‘What is that which you will name for me as the dower? ’ He-la said to her, ‘You decide for me-la, whatever occurs to you’. She said to him-la, ‘I have decided upon you, three thousand Dirhams, and a servant, and a maid, and killing Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’. He-la said to her, ‘For you would be entirety of what you are asking for, and as for killing Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, so how it be for me to do that? ’
She said, ‘Seek a decoy for him-asws, for it you were to kill him-asws, my heart would be healed, and your-la life with me would be welcoming, and if you-la are killed, then whatever is in the Presence of Allah-azwj is better for you-la than the world’. He-la said, ‘By Allah-azwj! My-la arrival in this city, and I-la had fled from it, there being no safety with its people, is only for what you are asking me-la of killing Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. So, for you would be what you have asked’. She said, ‘I shall seek out for you-la part of what you assist you-la upon that and strengthen you-la’. Then she sent a message to Wardan Bin Mujalid from Taym Al-Rabab and informed him the news and asked him to assist Ibn Muljim-la, may Allah-azwj Curse him-la. He agreed to do that for her, and Ibn Muljim-la came to a man from Ashja’a called Shabeeb Bin Bajarah and said, ‘O Shabeeb! Would you like for you to be the nobility of the world and the Hereafter? ’ He said, ‘And what is that? ’ He-la said, ‘Assist me-la upon killing Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’. And Shabeeb was upon the view of the Kharijites. He said to him-la, ‘O Ibn Muljim-la! May the childless bereft mothers grieve for you-la! You-la have come up with an atrocious thing, and how will you-la be able upon that? ’ Ibn Muljim-la said to him, ‘We shall lie in wait for him-asws in the grand Masjid, so when he-asws comes out for the dawn Salat, we shall ambush him-asws. So, if we were to kill him-asws, our souls would be healed and achieve our retaliation’. He-la did not cease until he answered him-la. He-la came with him until they entered the grand Masjid to see Qatam, and she was isolating in the grand Masjid (Performing I’tikaf), having struck a dome upon her. They said to her, ‘We are united in our view upon killing this man-asws’. She said to them, ‘When you are intending that, then come to me in this place’. They left from her presence. They waited for days, then came to her, and there was another one with her, on the nineteenth