Hadith 162

(The book) ‘Ghayba’ of Al Numani – Muhammad Bin Hammam, from Ahmad Bin Mabundar, from Ahmad Bin Huleyl, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abu Magra, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘When Amir Al-Momineen-asws and the people of Basra met (in battle), he-asws raised the flag, flag of Rasool-Allah-azwj. They ground trembled their feet and the sun turned yellow until they said, ‘Safety, O son-asws of Abu Talib-asws! ’
At that, he-asws said: ‘Neither kill the prisoner nor attack upon the injured, nor pursue a fleer! And one who throws down his weapon, so he is safe, and one who closes his door, so he is safe! ’
And when it was the day of Siffeen, they asked him-asws to raise the flag, but he-asws refused to them, and attacked upon them with Al-Hassan-asws, and Al-Husayn-asws and Ammar Bin Yasser. He-asws said to Al-Hassan-asws: ‘O my-asws son-asws! There is a term for the people they would be reaching it, and this flag, no one will raise it after me-asws except Al-Qaim-asws’’. [37]
(The book) ‘Al-Adad Al-Qawiya’ – ‘In the history of Al-Mufeed: ‘In the middle of Jumady Al-Awwal of the year thirty-six from the Emigration was the conquest of Al-Basra, and the Help descended from Allah-azwj the Exalted unto Amir Al-Momineen-asws’. And in the book ‘Al-Tazkira’ – ‘In this Muawiya manifested the caliphate, and during it Jarya Bin Qudamah Al-Sadi pledged allegiance to Ali-asws at Al-Basra, and Abdullah Bin Aamir fled from it, and during it Al-Zubeyr joined up with Makkah, and Ayesha had performed Umrah. Ibn Aamir had indicated to them to aim for Al-Basra and equipped them with a thousand thousand Dirhams, and one hundred camels, and Ya’la Bin Muniya arrived from Al-Basra and supported them with one hundred thousand Dirhams, and sent to Ayesha the camel which he had bought for two hundred Dinars. And Ali-asws travelled to them, and with him-asws were seven hundred from the companions (of Rasool-Allah-saww, and among them were four hundred from the Emigrants and the Helpers, from them being seventy participants of (battle of) Badr. And the event of the camel was at the end of the day of Thursday of five vacant from Jumady Al-Akhar. During it Talha was killed, and during it were killed Muhammad Bin Talha, and Ka’ab Bin Sowr; and Al-Zubeyr was paused by what he had heard from the Prophet-saww and it was: ‘You will be battling him-asws and you would be an oppressor’. He had said, ‘You-asws are reminding me of that which time had made me forget’, and he left returning. Amro Bin Jurmuz caught up with him in the valley of Al-Saba’a, and he was standing praying Salat, and he stabbed him and killed him, and he was seventy-five years of age. And it is said, ‘The number of the ones killed from the companions of the camel, were thirteen thousand, and from the companions of Ali-asws were four thousand or five thousand. And Amir Al-Momineen-asws travelled to Al-Kufa to place Abdullah Bin Abbas as governor upon Al-Basra; and Ayesha travelled to Al-Medina. And in this year, Muawiya reconciled with Rome upon wealth to be given to them to his occupation of batting against Ali-asws’’. [38]