Hadith 361

commander, and Sa’ad Bin Masoud Al-Saqafy a commander upon (clan of) Qays, and Abdul Qays, and Ma’aqil Bin Qays Al-Yarbouie upon (clan of) Tameem, and Sabbah and Al-Rabbab, and Quraysh, and Jinana; and Al-Asad and Mikhnaf Bin Suleym upon Al-Azd, and Bajeela and Khas’am, and the Helpers, and Khuza’a, and Hujr Bin Aday Al-Kindy upon Kindah, and Hazramaut, and Quza’ah, and Mahra and Ziyad Bin Al-Nazar upon Mazhij Al-Ash’areyn, and Saeed Bin Qays Bin Murra upon Hamdan, and the ones with him from Himeyr, and Aday Bin Hatim upon Tayy’. Nasr (the narrator) said, ‘And Ali-asws instructed Al-Haris Bin Al-Awr to call out among the people, ‘Come out to your soldiers at Al-Nuhkeyla’. He called out with that, and he-asws made Uqba Bin Amro Al-Ansari to be upon Al-Kufa. Then he-asws went out, and the people went out’’. [44]
Then Nasr and Ibn Abi Al Hadeed said, ‘And Ali-asws called Ziyad Bin Al-Nazr, and Shureyh Bin Hany, and they were both upon Mizhij and were collectors. He-asws said: ‘O Ziyad! Fear Allah-azwj during every evening and morning, and lighten the deception of the world upon yourself, and do not hope for it upon any situation from the afflictions, and know that you will not be taking out most of what you like fearing its abhorrence with you in the way of the personal desires do a lot of the harm. So be for yourself a preventer, a deterrent from the rebellion, and the injustice, and the aggression, for I-asws have made you to be a commander of this army, therefore do not be prolonging upon them. The best of you in the Presence of Allah-azwj is your most pious, and (they) learn from their learned ones and teach the ignorant ones, and be forbearing (tolerant) from their foolish ones, for you will rather realise the goodness with the forgiving, and restraining the harm and (shunning) the ignorance’. Ziyad said, ‘Bequeath, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I shall be a preserver of your-asws bequest, disciplined by your-asws education, seeing the guidance in implementation of your-asws orders, and the error in wasting your-asws pact’. So, he-asws instructed them that they should both take to one road and not differ, and he-asws sent them among twelve thousand at the forefront, and each one of them was upon a group from this army. When they travelled, they differed, and each one of them wrote to him-asws complaining of his companion. He-asws wrote to them: ‘From a servant of Allah-azwj Ali-asws, Amir Al-Momineen, to Ziyad Bin Al-Nazr and Shureyh Bin Hany. Greetings be upon you both. I-asws praise Allah-azwj to you, Who, there is no god except Him-azwj. As for after, I-asws made Ziyad Bin Al-Nazr to be in