Hadith 2

ib-asws during the pre-Islamic period, so Ali-asws attributed to himas and said: ‘I-asws am a son-asws of Abu Talib-asws! ’ He said, ‘Yes, your-asws fatheras used to be a companion of mine and a friend, so return, for I do not like to kill you-asws’. Our elder Abu Al-Khayr Musaddiq Bin Shabeeb Al-Nahwy was saying, ‘When we passed in reading out to him of this place, ‘By Allah-azwj! He did not instruct him-asws with the return to let him-asws live, but it was out of fear from him-asws, for he had recognised his-asws fighting at Badr and Ohad, and he knew that if he were to get up, he-asws would kill him. So, he was ashamed to reveal the failure, so he manifested the letting him-asws live and the care for him-asws, and he was a liar in it’. They said, ‘Ali-asws said to him: ‘But I-asws would love to kill you! ’ He said, ‘O son-asws of my brotheras! I dislike killing a benevolent man like you-asws, so returning back would be better for you-asws’. Ali-asws said: ‘Quraysh are narrating that you said, ‘No one calls me to three, except I answer, and even if to one of these’. He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘So I-asws am calling you to ’. He said, ‘Leave this’. He-asws said: ‘So I-asws am calling you to return along with the ones from Quraysh following you, back to Makkah’. He said, ‘Then the women of Quraysh would narrate about me that a boy deceived me’. He-asws said: ‘So I-asws am calling you to the duel on foot’. Amro prided and said, ‘I have not thought that there is anyone from the Arabs is more striking than I am! ’ Then he descended and hamstrung his horse. And it is said, he slapped its face so it fled, and they both circled around each other and the dust was raised for them covering them from the eyes until the people heard the exclamation of the Takbeer of Ali-asws from under the dust. They knew that Ali-asws had killed him and the dust settled from them, and Ali-asws was upon his chest, severing his head, and his companions fled to cross back over the ditch. But the cavalry (of the Muslims) won with them except for Nowfal Bin Abdullah, for his horse was short and it fell in the ditch, and the Muslims pelted him with the stones. He-asws said: ‘O community of people! You are more honourable than this! ’ Ali-asws descended to him and killed him, and Al-Zubeyr Hubeyra Bin Abu Wahab, and struck him. He cut off his saddle, and the armour which he had been carrying behind him, fell off. So, Al-Zubeyr took it and Ikrimah threw down his spear. And Umar Bin Al-Khattab seized Zirar Bin Amro. So, Zirar attacked upon him until when Umar found the touch of the spear being raised away from him, and said, ‘It is a favour to be thankful for, O Umar Bin Al-Khattab! I do not want to fill my hands from killing a Quraysh’. Zirar left returning to his companions’’. [15]