Hadith 59

hted Al Khirit and attacked upon him. He struck him and brought him down from his horse, then he descended (from his horse) to him, and he had injured him. Strikes were exchanged between the two. Al-Numan killed him and one hundred and seventy killed with him in the battle, and the rest went away in the land, right and left, and Ma’qal sent the cavalry to their luggage and captured the ones they came across therein, men and women and children. Then he looked among them, so the one who was a Muslim, he freed him and took his allegiance and freed the way of his dependants, and the one who reneged from, he presented to him the return to Al Islam or the killing. They became Muslims, so he freed their way and the way of their dependants, except for one Christian from them who refuse, so he killed him. And the people gathered. He said, ‘Pay whatever charities there were upon you during these years’. He took confirmation from the Muslims and deliberated to the Christians and their dependants and carried them with him. The Muslims came, those who were with them, to escort them. Ma’qal instructed with returning them. When they went to leave, they shouted and called the men and the women to each other. He said, ‘You have shown them such mercy, no one has shown them such mercy, neither before them nor after them’. And Ma’qal wrote to Ali-asws, ‘As for after, I hereby inform Amir Al-Momineen-asws about his-asws army and about their enemies. We pushed towards out enemies at the coast of the sea and we found tribes at it being with blades and numbers, and they had gathered to us. We called them to the unity and the obedience and to the judgment of the Book and the Sunnah, and we read out to them the letter of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and we raised peace flag to them. A group from them inclined towards us and another group was steadfast. So, we accepted the matter of that which accepted, and we were solid towards that which turned around. Allah-azwj Struck their father and Helped us against them. As for the one who was from the Muslims, we conferred upon him and took his allegiance to Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and we took the charities from them which were upon them. And as for the ones who reneged, we presented the return to to them or else we would kill them. (All of them) returned to apart from one man, so we killed him. And as for the Christians, we made them captives and are coming back with them for them to be an example for the ones from the ones under the responsibility (Ahl Al-Zimma) to come after them, lest they would prevent the taxes, and that they would not be audacious upon the fighting the people of the Qiblah, and they are for the belittlement and people of disgrace. May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you-asws, O Amir Al-Momineen and Obligate the blissful Paradise to be for you-asws. And the greetings’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he came back with the captives until he passed by Masqalah Bin Hubeyra Al-Shaybani, and he was an office-bearer for Ali-asws