Hadith 249

ween that and the Paradise, and between meeting my-saww Lord-azwj and the Paradise’. I said, ‘May my father and my mother be (sacrificed for) you-saww! Take the treasures of the world and the eternity in it, then the Paradise’. He-saww said: ‘No, by Allah-azwj, O Abu Muweyhib! I-saww have chosen to meet my-saww Lord-azwj and the Paradise’, and I complained after that for days’. And in a report from him as well, ‘He-saww did not live after that seeking of Forgiveness except seven or eight (days) until he-saww passed away’. And during this year was the battalion of Asama bin Zayd and that is that Rasool-Allah-saww ordered the people with preparation to battle Rome on four nights remaining from Safar of the year eleven. When it was the next morning, he-saww called Asama Bin Zayd and said: ‘Travel to the place of the killing of your father and trample them with the horses for I-saww have made you in charge of this army, and attack in the morning upon the people of Ubna and burn upon them, and Allah-azwj will Grant you victory with them. Wait a little among them, taking the guides and the spies and the notifiers ahead of you’. When it was the day of Wednesday Rasool-Allah-saww had fever and headache. When it was the morning of the day of Thursday, he-saww tied the flag for Asama with his-saww own hands, then said: ‘Battle in the Name of Allah-azwj, in the Way of Allah-azwj. Fight the ones who disbelieve in Allah-azwj’. He and the soldiers went out at the cliff, and there did not remain anyone from the face of the Emigrants and the Helpers except he had been assigned for that military expedition, among them being Abu Bakr, and Umar, and Sa’ad Bin Abu Waqas, and Saeed Bin Zayd, and Abu Ubeyda, and Qatada Bin Al-Numan. The people spoke and they said, ‘He-saww uses this boy (Asama) to be upon the Emigrants, the first ones? ’
Rasool-Allah-saww was angered with severe anger. He-saww came out and he-saww had bandaged a bandage upon his-saww head, and upon him-saww was a thick soft cloth. He-saww ascended the pulpit and praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj, then said: ‘As for after, O you people! So what are these words, which have reached me-saww from some of you regarding the command of Asama? And if you are taunting me-saww regarding the command of Asama, so you had taunted me regarding my giving the command to his father before him. And I-saww swear by Allah-azwj! If there is to be a successor for the command, it would be his son from after him for the creation of the command, and that it would be for the one from the people who is the most beloved to me-saww. So, deal goodly with him for he is from your best ones’. Then he-saww descended and entered his-saww house, and that was on the day of Saturday of the ten (days) vacant from Rabbi Al-Awwal. And the Muslims came, those who had gone out with Asama, bidding farewell to Rasool-Allah-saww and went to the military. Then he (the narrator) mentioned the opposition of the people upon what I (Majlisi) would be coming with its explanation. He (the narrator) said, ‘When allegiances were pledged to Abu Bakr, he ordered Bureyda with the flag to Asama in order to accomplish his task. Bureyda went to their former soldiers. When it was the crescent of Rabbi Al-Akhar of the year eleven, Asama went out and travelled to the people of Ubna for twenty nights and started the attack upon them. He killed the ones who faced to him and captured the ones he was able upon and killed the killer of his father and returned to Al Medina. Abu Bakr came out among the Emigrants and the people of Al Medina meeting them with joy for their safety. And during the period of his-saww illness, the news came of the appearance of Musaylama and Al-Ansy, and they were both deviating the people of their cities except that their matter had not manifested except during the state of the illness of Rasool-Allah-saww, and he-saww had faced illness far back from the Hajj, then had recovered, then the illness returned, the illness of the death. Abu Muweyhib said, ‘When Rasool-Allah-saww returned from his-saww Hajj, the news flew the he-saww has a complaint (become ill). Al Aswad leapt at Al-Yemen, and Musaylama at Al-Yamama. As for Al-Aswad, his name is Aheyla Bin Ka’ab, and he was a soothsayer conjuring and showing them the wonders and his talk would captivate the heart of the one who listened to him. And the beginning of his advent was after the Hajj of Rasool-Allah-saww. He travelled to Sana’a and seized it. Farwa Bin Maseyk wrote to Rasool-Allah-azwj with his news, and he was the governor of Rasool-Allah-saww upon Murad, and Muaz Bin Jabal went out fleeing until he passed by Abu Musa Al-Ashari, and he was at Marat. They stormed into Hazramaut, and Amro Bin Khalid returned to Al-Medina and he killed Shahr Bin Bazan and married his wife, and she was a daughter of an uncle of Feyrouz. Rasool-Allah-saww sent a message to a number of the sons as messengers and wrote to them that they should attempt against Al-Aswad either by assassination or a fight, and ordered them that they should appeal to the men, he-saww named them from the ones around them, from Humeyr and Hamdan; and he-saww sent a message to those persons that they should appeal to them. They entered to see his wife and they said, ‘This one has killed your father and your husband, so what is with you? ’ She said, ‘He is the most hateful of the creatures of Allah-azwj to me, and he is bar