Hadith 390

And from Zayd Bin Wahab, ‘Ali-asws said: ‘In this night, until when will we not get up in our entirety to (fight) the people? ’ He-asws stood among the people in the evening of Tuesday after Al-Asr. He-asws said: ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who does not Accomplish what is broken nor Breaks what is accomplished, and if He-azwj so Desired, no two from the community would differ, nor anyone from His-azwj creatures, nor would any mortal dispute regarding anything from His-azwj Commands, nor would the non-meritorious reject the one with merits of his merits. And we had been led (by the events), and these people were in power and they wrapped us in this place, and we are with sight and hearing from our Lord-azwj, and had He-azwj so Desired, He-azwj could have hastened the Punishment, but from Him-azwj is the alteration until Allah-azwj belies the oppressor and he knows the truth, where its destination is, and by (Allah-azwj) He-azwj Made the world to be a house of working and Made the Hereafter to be a house of the Recompense and the settlement, for Him to Recompense those committers of evil for what they had done, and (for) Him to Recompense those did good, with the Goodness [53: 31]. Indeed! We shall be meeting the enemy tomorrow if Allah-azwj so Desires, so prolong the standing (for Salat) tonight and frequent in recitation of the Quran, and ask Allah-azwj for the patience, and the help, and meeting them with the determination and the firmness, and become truthful’. He (the narrator) said, ‘The people leapt to their spear and the swords and their arrows in order to prepare them, and he-asws went out to mobilise the people during his-asws night, all of it, until morning, and he-asws tied the flag and nominated the commanders, and sent a caller to the people of Syria to call out among them, ‘Get up early morning for your battle! ’
The people of Syria clamoured among their soldiers and gathered to Muawiya. He composed his cavalry and tied his flag, and nominated his commanders, and mobilised his battalions; and the people of the Syrian were a lot more than the people of Al-Iraq by the double, and a pulpit was set up for Muawiya. He sat upon it in a large dome struck for him, the clothes and carpet having been cast upon it. Then the people arose on the day of Wednesday sixth of Safar, and they fought up to the end of their day, and they left during the evening, and all could not overcome. As for the seventh day, the fighting during it was severe, and the speeches were great, and Abdullah Bin Budeyl Al-Khuzaie was upon the right flank of Al-Iraq (forces), and he marched towards Habeeb Bin Maslama and he was upon the left flank of the people of Syria, until he forced them to the dome of Muawiya at the time of Al-Zohr’’. [12]