Hadith 403

clan of so and so? ’ He would say ‘Over there! May Allah-azwj not Guide you’. And the man from the people of Syria would pass by the people of Al-Iraq and he would say, ‘How can I go to the flag of the clan of so and so? ’ He would say, ‘Over there! May Allah-azwj not Protect you! ’
When it was morning during the tenth day, they woke up in the morning and Rabie were staring at Ali-asws like the whiteness of the eyes surrounding its blackness’’. Nasr said, ‘And it is narrated to me by Amro, ‘When he-asws stood beneath the flag of Rabie, Ataab Bin Laqeet said, ‘O community of Rabie! Be protecting Ali-asws today, for it he-asws were to be injured among you, you will be exposed (shamed). Can’t you see him-asws standing beneath your flag? ’ Shaqeeq Bin Sowr said to them, ‘O community of Rabie! There isn’t any excuse for you in the presence of Arabs that Ali-asws should be injured and among you is a man still alive! Defend him-asws today and be steadfast to your enemy for the meeting (in battle)! ’
(The tribe of) Rabie made a pact and too a mighty oath, and seven thousand from them pledged upon that no man would look behind him until they arrive at the pavilion of Muawiya. They fought that day a severe battle, the like of which had not happened before it, and they came around the pavilion of Muawiya. When he looked at them having come, he said (a couplet), ‘When you had said Rabie had turned around (and fled). A battalion from it has come like the solid mountain’. Then he said Amro, ‘O Amro! What is your view’. He said, ‘I view that you should not devote to my views today’. Muawiya stood up and vacated his pavilion for them, and his belonging, and went out fleeing sheltering with some of the strikers of the army among the last of the people. And Rabie ended up to his pavilion and his belonging. And he (Muawiya) sent a message to Khalid Bin Al-Ma’mar, ‘You have won, and for you would be the emirate of Khurasan if you do not complete’. Khalid terminated the fighting and did not complete it, and he said to Rabie, ‘You have been righteous to your oaths, so it suffices you’. When it was the year of the unity, and the people pledged allegiance to Muawiya, he made him commander upon Khurasan and sent him to it, but he died before he reached it’’. [27]