Hadith 59

-Momineen-asws wrote to him: ‘As for after, I-asws have understood what you mentioned from the matter of the group which passed by your work, and they killed a righteous Muslims while the adversary, the Polytheist is safe with them, and that they are a people Satan-la has deviated and they have strayed like those, And they reckoned that strife would not be happening, so they were blinded and deafened. [5: 71], so Hear them and see [19: 38], on the day their deeds are raised. So, necessitate your word and come back upon your taxes, for you are as you mentioned, (people are) in your obedience and your advice. And the greetings’’. And he-asws wrote to Ziyad Bin Khasfa: ‘As for after, I-asws had ordered you to descend at the monastery of Abu Musa until my-asws instructions come to you, and that is I-asws did not happen to know when the group was heading, and it has reached me-asws that they have taken to go towards a town from the towns of the desert. So, follow their tracks and ask around about them, for they had killed a man from the people of the desert, a Muslim, and righteous one. When you meet with them, then return them to me-asws. If they refuse, then combat them and seek Assistance with Allah-azwj against them for they have separated from the truth and have shed the forbidden blood, and they have taken the Way lightly. And the greetings. Abdullah Bin Wa’il said, ‘I took the letter from him-asws, and on that I was a youth, a teenager. I sought his-asws permission to go with him-asws to the enemy. He-asws permitted and supplicated for me. I came with the letter to him-asws, then we went out until we came to the place which we had been in. We asked about them and it was said, ‘They have taken to go towards Al-Madain’, and we met them at Al-Madain. Zayd said to their chiefs, ‘What is that which you are avenging against Amir Al-Momineen-asws and against us to the extent that you have separated from us? ’ He said, ‘I am not happy with your companion as an Imam, and I am not pleased with your ways as a way, so I viewed that I should isolate and be with the ones from the people who call to the consultation. So, when the people unite upon a man, he would be a pleasure of the entirety of the community with the people’. Zayd said, ‘Woe be unto you! And can the people unite upon a man near Ali-asws being a knower with Allah-azwj and His-azwj Book and Sunnah of His-azwj Rasool-saww, and along with his-asws kinship and his-asws precedence in? ’
Al-Khirit said to him, ‘It is what I am saying to you’. Ziyad said, ‘Then regarding what did you kill the Muslim man? ’ Al-Khirit said, ‘I did not kill him, but rather a group of my companions killed him’. He said, ‘Hand them over to us’. He said, ‘There is no way to do that’. He said, ‘And you are doing like this? ’ He said, ‘It is what you heard’. He (the narrator) said, ‘We called our companions and Al-Khirit called his companions, then we fought. By Allah-azwj! I had not seen fighting like it since Allah-azwj