Hadith 5

hrew myself (upon it) and turned aside like the fatigued one. When the night came, I saw Rasool-Allah-saww and Ali-asws in my dream, and in the hand was a sword, and between them-asws there was a man sleeping having a thin white trouser upon him with red embroidery. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O so and so! Uncover from his face! ’ I uncovered it. He-saww said: ‘Do you recognise him? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. He-saww said: ‘Who is he? ’ I said, ‘Al-Muqallad Bin Al-Musayyab’. He-saww said: ‘O Ali-asws! Slaughter him! ’ He passed the sword upon his throat and slaughtered him and raised it. He wiped it with the trouser which was upon his chest, with two wipes, so the traces of the blood in it were two lines. I was woke up frightened, and I did not inform anyone. A grievous matter entered me until I informed a man from my companions, and I wrote down the commentary of the dream. And I dated the night and did not let any third person know of it until we ended up to Al-Kufa. We heard the news that the governor had been killed and in the morning he (was found to have been) slaughtered in his bed. When we arrived to Al-Mosul, we asked about his news, but no one added apart from that in the morning he (was found to have been) slaughtered. We asked about the night in which he had been slaughtered, and there is turned out to be the very night which we had dated it at Al-Medina with my companion. It happened to be harmonious. Then we said, ‘There still remains one thing, and it is the trouser and the blood upon it. We asked about the one who had washed him. We were guided to him. We asked him. He brought out to was what he had taken from his clothes when he had washed him, and the trouser was white with the red embroidery, and in it were two lines of blood’’. [5]