Hadith 59

ursue their tracks and not to stop seeking them until he either kills them or exiles them from the land of, for we are not safe from them from corrupting the people against you-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws returned me to him and wrote with me: ‘As for after, the Praise is for Allah-azwj upon His-azwj Assisting His-azwj friends and Forsaking His-azwj enemies. May Allah-azwj Recompense you and the Muslims goodly, for you have done well in the afflictions, and fulfilled what was upon you. Ask about the brother of the clan of Najiya, so if it reaches you that he has settled in a city from the cities, then travel to him until you kill him or exile him, for he will not cease to be an enemy to the Muslims and a friend to the mischief-makers. And the greetings’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Ma’qal asked about his travel and the place which he had ended up to, and he was informed of his place by the coast of the sea at Persia and that he had corrupted the ones in front of him from the (clan of) Abdul Qays, and the ones who befriended them from the rest of the Arabs, and he and his people had refused the charities in the year of Siffeen, and they refused it during that year as well. Ma’qal travelled to them in that army from the people of Al-Kufa and Al-Basra, and they took to go to a land of Persia until they ended up to the coasts of the sea. When Al-Khirit heard of his travel, he came back to the ones from his companions who were with him, from the ones who had viewed the view of the going out. He insisted to them, ‘I view your views and that Ali-asws, it was not befitting for him-asws that he gets the men to judge in the religion of Allah-azwj’. And he said to the others from his companions, insisting to them, ‘Ali-asws has got a judge to judge and was pleased with him, and opposed his judgment of the one he-asws had been pleased with for himself-asws, and this is the view which has come out to him-asws from Al-Kufa’. And he said to the ones who view refusal of the charities, ‘Fasten your hands upon your charities, then help your relatives with it, and give, if you so like, upon your poor’. Thus, every group was pleased with a section of the words, and among them were a lot of Christians who had become Muslims. When they saw that differing, they said, ‘By Allah-azwj! Our religion which we have exited from is better and more guiding than the religion of theirs, the one whose religion does not forbid them from shedding the blood and frightening the ways (travellers)’. So, they returned to their religion. Al-Khirat met them, and he said, ‘Woe be unto you! Nothing will save you from being killed except patience and fighting them. Do you know what Ali-asws judged regarding the ones from the Christians who became Muslims? ’ Then he returned to Christianity, ‘No, by Allah-azwj! He-asws neither hears a word of his, nor sees there being any excuse for him, nor a call, nor accepts repentance from him-asws, nor calls him to it, and if he-asws were to jud