Hadith 12

eported by Al-Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Sabit Al Sumali, from Abu Is’haq Al Sabie, from Suweyd Bin Gafala, ‘Ali-asws addressed (the people) one day. A man from beneath his-asws pulpit stood up and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I passed by the valley Al-Qurra and found Khalid Bin Urfutah to have died, so I sought Forgiveness (of Allah-azwj) for him’. He-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! He had not died, nor will he be dying until he leads an army of straying, the bearer of its flag would be Habeeb Bin Hamad’. Another man stood up from beneath the pulpit, and he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I am Habeeb Bin Hammad, and I am a Shia of yours and love you-asws’. Ali-asws said: ‘Are you Habeen Bin Hammad? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said to him for a second time: ‘You are Habeeb Bin Hammad? ’ He said, ‘Yes, by Allah-azwj’. He-asws said: ‘But, by Allah-azwj! You are its bearer, and you will be bearing it and will be entering with it from this door’ – and he-asws indicated to Al-Feel gate of the Masjid of Al-Kufa. Sabit said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I did not die until I saw the flag of Ibn Ziyad, and he had sent Umar Bin Sa’ad to war against Al-Husayn-asws Bin Ali-asws, and made Khalid Bin Arfatah (who is from the righteous men from the adversaries), to be upon its vanguard, and Habeen Bin Hammad was bearer of its flag. He entered with it from Al-Feel gate’’. [50]
And it is reported by Muhammad Bin Jabalah Al Khayyat, from Ikrimah, from Yazeed Al Ahmasy, ‘Ali-asws was seated in Masjid Al-Kufa and there was a group in front of him, from them was Amro Bin Hureys, when a veiled woman came, could not be recognised. She paused and said to Ali-asws, ‘O one-asws who kills the men and sheds the blood, and orphans the children and widows the women! ’
Ali-asws said: ‘And surely she is the chatterbox, the vulgar of the tongue, and surely this one, she resembles the men and the women who do not see any blood (of menstruation) at all’. The woman turned around fleeing reversing her head. Amro Bin Hureys followed her. When she came to be at Al-Rahba, he said to her, ‘By Allah-azwj! I am cheered with what happened from you today to this man-asws. Enter into my house until I gift to you and some clothes for you’. When she entered his house, he instructed his maids with investigating her, and with removing her clothes in order to look at his-asws truthfulness in what he-asws had said about her. She cried and asked him not to uncover her, and she said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I am like that he-asws has said to me. For me there is pubic germination for the men, and two female (parts) like females of the men, and I have not seen blood at all’. So he left her and expelled her. Then Amro came to Ali-asws and informed him. He-asws said: ‘My-asws friend Rasool-Allah-saww informed me-asws with the rebels against me-asws from the men, and the rebels from the women, up to the establishment of the Hour’’. [51]
And it is reported by Usman Bin Saeed, from Yahya Al Tameemi, from Al Amsh, from Ismail Ibn Raja’a who said, ‘A’ash Bahilah stood up to Ali-asws, and he was a