Hadith 416

And from Umar Bin Sa’ad, from Mujalid, from Al Shaby, from Ziyad Bin Al Nazar Al Harisy who said, ‘I was present with Ali-asws at Siffeen and we fought for three days and three nights (continuously) until the spears were broke, and the arrows ran out, then it came to swordfights. We whipped with these up to the midnight, until we came to among the people of Syrian during the third day, and were in hand to hand combat with each other, and we had fought with the entirety of the weapons. There did not remain anything from the weapons except we had fought with it, to the extent that we had thrown sand at each other, and we persisted until we became standing looking at each other, no one from the two parties being able upon getting up to his counterpart, nor fight. When it was midnight, Muawiya and his cavalry aligned from the rows, from the third night and were) dominant (over the army of) Ali-asws in the battle of that night, and Ali-asws came to the companions of Muhammad-saww and buried them; and Shimr Bin Abraha was killed, and a lot from the community of the companions of Ali-asws were killed on that day’’. [41]