Hadith 54

asws’’. [52]
And it has been reported by the narrators of Ahadeeth that a man recited in the presence of Ali-asws: Say: ‘Shall We Inform you of the greatest losers in deeds [18: 103] Those, whose striving is lost in the life of the world and they are reckoning that they are good in what they do? ’ [18: 104]. Ali-asws said: ‘The people of Haroura (Kharijites) are from them’’. [53]
Al-Mubrad said, ‘And from the poems of Amir Al-Momineen-asws is that which there is no differing in it that he-asws had said it, and he-asws used to repeat it. When they angered him-asws that he-asws should acknowledge with the Kufr and repent so that they would travel with him-asws to Syria, he-asws said: ‘Is it after accompanying Rasool-Allah-saww and the understanding in the religion of Allah-azwj, I-asws would return to be a Kafir? ’
Then he-asws said: ‘O witness of Allah-azwj upon me-asws, bear witness that I-asws am upon the religion of the Prophet-saww, Ahmad-saww. One who doubts in Allah-azwj, so I-asws am guided. O Lord-azwj! Make my-asws return to be in the Gardens’’. [54]
And it is reported as well in (the book) ‘Al-Kamil’ – ‘Ali-asws, during the first emergence of the group against him-asws, called Sa’sa’a Bin Sowhan Al-Abdy, and he-asws had sent him to them, and Zayd Bin Al-Nasr Al-Harisy with Abdullah Bin Abbas. He said to Sa’sa’a Bin Sowhan: ‘Which of the group did you see them of most intense obedience? ’ He said, ‘Yazeed Bin Qays Al-Arhaby’. Ali-asws rode to Al-Haroura and went on to be in their midst until he-asws came to a marquee of Yazeed Bin Qays. He-asws prayed two cycles Salat in it, then came out and leaned upon his-asws bow and faced towards the people. He-asws said: ‘This is a place, one who wins in it would win up to the Day of Qiyamah’. Then he-asws spoke to them and adjured them. They said, ‘We have sinned a mighty sin with the arbitration, and we have repented, so you-asws repent to Allah-azwj just as we have repented. We are being fair to you-asws’. Ali-asws said: ‘I-asws seek Refuge from every sin’. They returned and they were six thousand’. When they settled at Al-Kufa, they desired that Ali-asws should retract from the arbitration and saw him-asws as having strayed, and they said, ‘But rather, Amir Al-Momineen-asws is waiting to fatten the animal to be fattened and revive the wealth, then he-asws will get with us to (fight) Syria’. Al Ash’as came to Ali-asws and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! The people are discussing that your-asws arbitration as a straying and the staying upon it as Kufr’. Ali-asws stood up and addressed. He-asws said: ‘One who claims I-asws am retracting from the arbitration, he has lied, and the one who sees is as a straying, so he has strayed’. On that day the Kharijites went out from the Masjid and held a tribunal’. The Ibn Abi Al-Hadeed said, ‘Every mischief happened during the caliphate of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and every disorder which occurred, so its origin was Al-Ash’as, and if Amir Al-Momineen-asws had not eradicated it in a concern of the government in this time, the war of Al-Nahrawan would not have taken place, but he-asws got up with them to (fight) Muawiya, and he ruled Syria. He-asws attempted to