Hadith 263

ss them, that Allah-azwj should Assist me and Strengthen me upon fighting against them’. He-saww said: ‘O Allah-azwj! If he comes across them, then Strengthen him and Assist him! ’
Then he-saww went out to the people and said: ‘O you people! One who loves to look at my-saww guardian upon myself-saww and my-saww family, so this Abu Rafie is my-saww guardian upon myself-saww’. Awn Bin Ubeydullah Bin Abu Rafie said, ‘When Ali-asws was pledged allegiance to and Muawiya opposed him-asws at Syria, and Talha and Al-Zubeyr travelled to Al-Basra, Abu Rafie said, ‘This is the word of Rasool-Allah-saww. Ali-asws will be fighting a group, happening to be a Right for the Sake of Allah-azwj, their Jihad’. So, he sold his land at Khyber, and his house, then he went out with Ali-asws, and he was an old aged man, having eighty-five years for him, and he said, ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj! I woke up in the morning and there is no one in my house. I have pledged two allegiances – an allegiance of Al-Aqaba and an Allegiance of the Pleasure (under the tree), and I have prayed Salat to two Qiblahs, and have emigrated three emigrations’. I said, ‘And what are the three emigrations? ’ He said, ‘I emigrated with Ja’far-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him-as, to the land of Ethiopia, and I emigrated with Rasool-Allah-azwj to Al-Medina, and this emigration with Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws to Al-Kufa’. He did not cease to be with Ali-asws until was martyred, so Abu Rafie returned to Al-Medina with Al-Hassan-asws, and there was no house for him at it, nor any land. So, Al-Hassan-asws divided a house of Ali-asws in two halves, to be for him, and gave him a piece of land he-asws had cut it out. Ubeydullah Bin Abu Rafie sold it to Muawiya for one hundred and seventy thousand’’. [155]