Hadith 5

(The book) ‘Al-Amaali’ of the Sheykh Al-Tusi Al-Mefeed, from Al-Husayn Bin Ali Bin Muhammad Al-Tammar, from Ali Bin Mahan, from his uncle, from Muhammad Bin Umar, from Sowr Bin Yazeed, from Mak’howl who said, ‘When it was the day of Khyber, a man from the Jews called Marhab came out, and he was of a tall stature, large body, and the Jews used to send him forward due to his bravery and his affluence. He said, ‘He came out during that day to the companions of Rasool-Allah-saww, and he did not stop by anyone except he said, ‘I am Marhab’, then attacked upon him, and not one withstood him. There was a foster mother for him and she was a soothsayer, and she used to marvel at his youth and the largeness of his body and said to him, ‘Fight every one who fights you and you will overcome every you overcomes upon you, except the one who is named to you as ‘Haider’, for if you were to stop to him, you will die’. He said, ‘When his skirmishes were a lot and the people were alarmed at his standing (in the battlefield), that was grievous upon the Prophet-saww, and they asked him-saww to bring Ali-asws out to him. The Prophet-saww called Ali-asws and said to him-asws: ‘O Ali-asws! Suffice me-saww of Marhab’. So, Amir Al-Momineen-asws went out to him. When Marhab sighted him, he was quick to him-asws but could not see any fault with him-asws. He did not like that and flinched from him-asws. Then he went forward and said, ‘I am the one my mother named me as Marhab’. Ali-asws came and he-asws was saying: ‘I-asws am the one my-asws mother-asws n