Hadith 105

(The book) ‘Tuhaf Al Uqool’ –
And advice to Yazeed Bin Al-Nazar when he-asws implemented upon his-asws vanguard (front line) to Siffeen: ‘Fear Allah-azwj during every evening and morning, and fear upon yourself of the deception and do not trust it upon any state from the affliction. And know that you if you do not remove yourself from most of what you love, fearing for it’s abhorrence, the whims would fling you to most of the harm to you – even the stabbings. So be for yourself a defender, deterring from the injustice, and the error, and the rebellion, and the aggression. I-asws have made you in-charge of this army, so neither disgrace them nor prolong upon them, for the best of you is the most pious of you. Learn from their scholar and teach their ignorant one, and be forbearing from their foolish ones, for rather you would realise the goodness with the knowledge and restrain the harm and the ignorance’. Then he-asws followed it with a letter advising him in it and cautioning him, and this is its text: ‘Know that a vanguard of the people are their eyes, and the eyes of the vanguard are their frontmen. So, when you go out from your city and are near your enemies, do not be annoyed from sending the frontmen in every direction, and in some reefs, and the trees, and the caves, and in every side until your enemies cannot surprise you and an ambush might (not) happen to you all. And do not travel the battalions and the tribes from the morning to the evening except upon mobilisation, for if you are raided or overcome by abhorrence, you would have advanced in the mobilisation, and when you descend afterwards and they descend with you, so let your soldiers be facing the nobles, or in the slopes of the mountain and banks of the river lest the worst happen for you and you have to return; and let your fighters be from one direction or two, and make the corporals (watchers) to be in the slopes of the mountain and at the top edges and river banks seeing for you, perhaps an enemy might come from a fearful place or safe (place). And whenever you descend, descend altogether, and when you depart, then depart altogether, and when the night overcomes you and you descend, then preserve your soldiers with the spears, and the shields, and make your archers to follow your shielders lest a deception hits you and heedlessness does not fact you. And guard your soldiers yourself, and before of resting up to the morning except for a slumber or blinking. Then let them happen to be your occupation and your behaviour until you end up to your enemy; and upon you is to be with the ease in your war, and beware of the hastiness except if an opportunity enables you; and beware of fighting except if you are initiated with or my-asws orders come to you’. And the greetings be upon you and Mercy of Allah-azwj’’. [1]