Hadith 410

Nasr said, ‘And it is narrated to us by Yahya Bin Ya’la, from Al Asbagh Bin Nubata who said, ‘A man came to Ali-asws and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Those people, the ones you-asws are fighting, the call is one, and the Rasool is one, and the Salat is one, and the Hajj is one, so what is that I can name them (with)? ’ He-asws said: ‘Name them what Allah-azwj has Named them with in His-azwj Book’. He said, ‘I do not know all what is in the Book’. He-asws said: ‘Have you not heard Allah-azwj Saying: Those Rasools, We Merited some of them over the others – up to His-azwj Words: and had Allah so Desired, those (people) from after them (Rasools) would not have fought after the clear proofs had come to them. But, they differed, so from them was one who expressed belief, and from them was one who committed Kufr. [2: 253]. When the differing occurred, we were the foremost with Allah-azwj, and with the Book, and with the Prophet-saww, and with the truth. We are those who believed, and they are those who committed Kufr, and Allah-azwj Desired fighting them, so this fight of ours is a Desire of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Will’’. [34]