Hadith 454

be similar to that’. They both went out to the duel and shouted for Al-Abbas and called him to the fighting. He said, ‘I shall seek permission of my Master-asws and I shall return to you’. And he came to Ali-asws in order to seek his permission. He-asws said to him: ‘Give me your clothes and your weapons and your horse’, and he-asws wore them and rode the horse and went out to them both. They thought it is Al-Abbas. They said, ‘Your Master-asws has permitted you? ’
He-asws was embarrassed from the lying. He-asws recited: There is Permission (to fight) for those who are fought against because they are oppressed, and surely Allah is Able upon Helping them [22: 39]’. One of the two men advanced to him-asws, and two strikes met. Ali-asws struck him upon the middle of his belly and cut it into two. The (people) thought he-asws had missed, but when the horse moves, he fell down in two pieces, and his horse neighed and came to the army of Ali-asws. And the other on advanced. Ali-asws struck him and he joined up with his companion. Then he-asws roamed to them with a roaming and returned to his-asws place, and Muawiya came to know it was Ali-asws. He said, ‘May Allah-azwj Uglify Al-Lajaj! It is for sitting back. I did not ride it except I was abandoned’. Amro Bin Al-Aas said, ‘By Allah-azwj! The two men of Lakham are the abandoned, not you’. Muawiya said to him, ‘Be quiet, O you human being! This is not the time from your time’. Amro said, ‘So, if it does not happen to be from my time, then may Allah-azwj have Mercy on the two men of Lakham, and I do not think he-asws did it’. And he said in description of ‘Laylat Al-Hareer’, ‘He-asws did not meet any brave except his blood was spilt, nor any champion except his feet wavered, nor any intender except he was put to death, nor any youth except his life was cut short and his regret prolonged. And there did not gather any hypocrisy except he separated it, nor a straying built up except he-asws demolished it. And every time a horseman was killed, it was announced with exclamation of Takbeer. I counted the exclamations of Takbeer during ‘Laylat Al-Hareer’, and there were five hundred and twenty-three exclamations of Takbeer for five hundred and twenty-three killed from the inmates of the blazing Fire’. And it is said, ‘During that night (Laylat Al-Hareer), the belt of his-asws armour snapped due to the weight of what had flowed from the blood upon his-asws armour’. And it is said, ‘The ones slain by him-asws were recognised during the day, for his-asws strikes were upon one pace, whether he-asws had struck lengthwise or width-wise, and it is as if these were cut by the fire’’. [91]