Hadith 250

(The book) ‘Sharh Al Nahj’ of Ibn Meesam, said, ‘When Amir Al-Momineen-asws was free from the battle of Al-Jamal, he-asws addressed the people at Al-Basra. He-asws praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Hi-azwj and sent Salawaat unto the Prophet-saww, then said: ‘O people of Al-Basra! Of people of destructive (city) having destroyed its people thrice, and upon Allah-azwj is to complete the fourth! O army of the woman (Ayesha) and supporters of the frothing animals! You answered and stumbled, and were defeated. Your manners are dust, and your religion is hypocrisy, and your water is salty, your city is of the stinkiest of the cities of Allah-azwj in soil, and their remotest from the sky. Nine-tenths of the evil is contained in it due to its sins, and the one exiting from it would be by the Pardon of Allah-azwj! It is as if I am looking at this town of yours, and water has layered (flooded) it to the extent that nothing is seen from it except the terrace of the Masjid. It is as if it is a head of a bird in the depths of the sea! ’
And he-asws continued up to his-asws words: ‘When they see Al-Basra to have transformed its pebbles into houses, and its crowds are in the castles, then the fleeing, the fleeing, for there would be no insight for you on that day! ’
Then he-asws turned away from his-asws right. He-asws said: ‘How much is there between you and Al-Ubulah? ’ Al-Munzir Bin Al-Jaroud said to him-asws, ‘May my father and my mother be sacrificed for you-asws! Four Farsakhs’. He-asws said to him: ‘You speak the truth! By the One-azwj Who Sent Muhammad-saww and Honoured him-saww with the Prophet-hood and Specialised him-saww with the Message, and Hastened his-saww soul to the Paradise! I-asws have heard from him-saww like what you are hearing from me-asws! He-saww had said: ‘O Ali-asws! Know that between that which is named as Al-Basra and what which is named as Al-Ubulah, there are four Farsakhs, and there shall be happening in that which is named as Al-Ubulah, a place of the companions of Al-Ushour. Seventy thousand from my-saww community would be killed in that place. On that day they would be at the status of the martyrs of Badr! ’’
Al-Munzir said to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! And who will kill them? May my father and my mother be sacrificed for you-asws! ’
He-asws said: ‘Brothers would kill them, and they would be a generation as if they are the Satans-la. Black would be their colour, stinky would be their smells. Severe as dogs, little would be their plunder. Beatitude is for the one who kill him. During that time a people would mobilise for fighting them. Then would be disgraced in the view of the arrogant ones from the people of that time, unknown in the earth, well known in the sky. There shall cry upon them, the sky and its dwellers, and the earth and its dwellers! ’
Then his-asws eyes filled up with the weeping, then he-asws said: ‘Woe (Weyh) b