Hadith 207

Tafseer Furaat Bin Ibrahim – Ubeyd Bin Kaseer, transmitting from Asbagh Bin Nubata who said, ‘When we had defeated the people of Al-Basra, Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws came until he leaned to a wall from the wall of Al-Basra and we gathered around him-asws, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws was riding and the people had descended. He-asws called a man by his name, and he came to him-asws. Then he-asws called a man by his name, and he came to him-asws. Then he-asws called a man by his name, and he came to him-asws, until seventy persons from us came to him, all of them had short beards and had clipped these, and most of them on that day were from Hamdan. Amir Al-Momineen-asws took to a road from the roads of Al-Basra and we were with him, and upon us were shield and the helmets, collared with the swords on the shoulders until he-asws ended up to a capacious house. We entered and therein were women crying. When they saw him-asws, they shouted one shout and said: ‘This is the killer of the loved ones! ’
Amir Al-Momineen-asws withheld from them, then said: ‘Where is the house of Ayesha? ’ They gestured towards a room in the house. We carried Ali-asws away from his-asws animal and descended him. He-asws entered to see her. I did not hear anything from the words of Ali-asws, except that Ayesha was a woman of loud voice, so we heard her voice as if it were the excuses being offered, ‘I did not do it! ’
Then Amir Al-Momineen-asws came out to us, and we carried him-asws upon his-asws animal. A woman from the direction of the house presented to him-asws. He-asws said; ‘Where is Safiyya? ’ She said, ‘Here I am, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! ’ He-asws said: ‘Will you not refrain these bitches from me-asws who are claiming that I-asws am a killer of the loved ones? And if I-asws was a killer of the loved ones, I-asws would have killed the ones in that house’ – and he-asws gestured towards three rooms in the house. He (the narrator) said, ‘We struck (our hands) upon the sheaths of the swords and we struck our sights to the rooms which he-asws had gestured towards. By Allah-azwj! There did not remain any crier in the house except she was silent, nor anyone standing except she sat down. I said, ‘O Abu Al-Qasim! So, who were in those three rooms? ’ He said, ‘As for one, therein was Marwan Bin Al-Hakam, injured, and with him were injured youths of Quraysh; and as for the second, therein was Abdullah Bin Al-Zubeyr, injured, and with him were the family of Al-Zubeyr; and as for the third, therein were the heads of the people of Al-Basrah wherever she went around’. I said, ‘O Abu Al-Qasim! There people are the ulcers. Why didn’t you go down upon them with these swo