Hadith 309

contracted and became like the breast of a woman. Upon him were hair like the whiskers of a cat. When they found him, they cut off his hand and installed it upon a spear, then Ali-asws went on to call out: ‘Allah-azwj Spoke the Truth and His-azwj Rasool-saww delivered! ’ He-asws did not cease saying that, he-asws and his-asws companions, from the afternoon up to the setting of the sun, or almost’’. [135]
And it is reported by Ibn Dezeyl as well having said, ‘When the patience of Ali-asws almost ran out in search of Al-Mukhdaj (Zul Saday), he-asws said: ‘Bring me-asws the mule of Rasool-Allah-saww! ’ He-asws rode it and the people followed him-asws. He-asws saw the slain and went on to say: ‘Turn them over! ’ They overturned the slain from the battlefield until he was extracted. Ali-asws performed Sajdah’’. [136]
And it is reported by a lot of people, ‘When he-asws called for the mule, he-asws said: ‘Come to me-asws with it, for it would be a guide’. They paused with it at Al-Mukhdaj (Zul Saday). He-asws extracted him from beneath a lot of slain’’. [137]
And it is reported by Al Awwam Bin Howshab, from his father, from his grandfather Yazeed Bin Ruweym who said, ‘Ali-asws said: ‘Today four thousand of the Kharijites would be killed, one of them would be Zul Saday! ’ When the people (Kharijites) were ground and the archers extracted Zul Saday, I follow him-asws. He-asws ordered me to cut out for him-asws four thousand sticks. I did not cease to be like that, and I was in front of him-asws, and he-asws was riding behind me, and the people were following him-asws, until there only remain one (stick unused). I looked at him-asws (to find out what to do), and there, his-asws face was frowning. And when his leg (of a slain) was in my hands, I pulled it and said, ‘This is a leg of a human being’. He-asws descended from the mule hurriedly it. He-asws pulled out another man, and we dragged him until he came to be upon the soil, and there, it was Al-Mukhdaj (Zul Saday). Ali-asws exclaimed Takbeer at the top of his-asws voice. Then he-asws performed Sajdah, and the people exclaimed Takbeer, all of them’’. [138]
And it is reported by Usman Bin Saeed, from Yahya Al Tameemi, from Al Amsh, from Ismail Bin Raja’a who said, ‘A’ash Bahila stood up to Ali-asws, and on that day he was a young boy, and he-asws was addressing and mentioning the epics. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! How resembling is this Hadeeth with the mythical narrations! ’ Ali-asws said: ‘If you were a sinner in what you said, O boy, may Allah-azwj Hit you with a boy of Saqeef! ’
Then he-asws was silent. A man stood up and said, ‘And who is the boy of Saqeef, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws? ’ He-asws said: ‘A boy who will rule this city of yours. He will not leave any sanctity of Allah-azwj except he would violate it. He-asws will strike off the neck of this boy with his sword’. They said, ‘How long will he rule for, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! ’ He-asws said: ‘Twenty (years) if he can reach it’. They said,