Hadith 255

t and the greetings. By you-asws, the backs of the Momineen were strengthened, and the flags of the ways became clear, and you-asws established the Sunnahs, and your-asws merits and your-asws qualities were not gathered for anyone. You-asws preceded to answering the Prophet-saww being in front, preferring, and hastened to help him-saww, and save him-saww by yourself-asws, and you-asws swung your-asws sword Zulfiqar in the places of fear and caution. Allah-azwj Broke every obstinate tyrant through you-asws, and Humbled every one with severe prowess, and Demolished by you the fortresses of the people of Shirk, and Kufr, and aggression, and ruination, and Killed by you the people of straying from the enemies. So, congratulations to you-asws, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! You-asws were closest of the people from Rasool-Allah-saww in kinship, and their first one to be a Muslim, and their most with knowledge and understanding. Congratulations to you-asws, O Abu Al-Hassan-asws! Allah-azwj has Ennobled your-asws position, and you-asws were closest of the people to Rasool-Allah-saww in lineage, and their first one to be Muslim, and their most plentiful of conviction, and their most intense of heart, and their most exerting of himself as a fighter, and their of their greatest share in the goodness. Allah-azwj will not Deprive you-asws of your-asws Recompense, nor Let us be humiliated after you-asws. By Allah-azwj! Your-asws lifetime had been keys of the goodness, and locks of the evil, and this day of yours-asws, is a key to all evil and a lock of all good, and if the people had accepted from you-asws, they would have eaten from above them, and from beneath their feet. But they preferred the world over the Hereafter’. Then he cried with intense crying, and all the ones who were with him, cried, and they turned to Al-Hassan-asws, and Al-Husayn-asws, and Ja’far, and Al-Abbas-asws, and Yahya, and Al-Awn, and Abdullah, and consoled them regarding their father-asws, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-asws. And the people dispersed, and the children of Amir Al-Momineen-asws and their Shias returned to Al-Kufa, and no one from the people was aware of them. When the morning emerged and the sun rose, they brought out a coffin from the house of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and they came with it to the chapel at the back of Al-Kufa. Then Al-Hassan-asws went ahead and prayed Salat upon him-asws and raised him-asws upon a she-camel and made it travel with one of the slaves. The reporter said, ‘When it was the morning, they gathered for killing the accursed one’. Abu Mikhnaf said, ‘When Al-Hassan-asws returned, Umm Kulsoom-asws entered to see him-asws and made him-asws swear that he-asws will not leave the accursed one in the life for even one hour, although he-asws had determined to delay it for three days. He-asws answered her-asws to that and went out at that time and moment and gathered his-asws family members, and the people of insight from the companions of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, the ones who had been in the era of Rasool-Allah-saww – like Sa’sa Bin Sowhan, and Al-Ahnaf, and resembling them, may Allah-azwj be Pleased with them, and consulted them in killing Ibn Muljim-la, may Allah-azwj the Exalted Curse him-la. Each one consulted with killing him-la during that very day, and their views were united upon killing him-la in the place in which the Imam-asws Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws had been killed’. The reporter said, ‘Then the children of Amir Al-Momineen-asws and his-asws companions, when they returned to Al-Kufa, and they had gathered to kill the accursed enemy of Allah-azwj Ibn Muljim-la, Abdullah son of Ja’far-asws said, ‘Cut off his-la hands and his-la legs, and his-la tongue, and kill him-la after that! ’ And Ibn Al Hanafiya said, ‘Make him-