Hadith 7

e advised me’. Hashim said to him, ‘And as for your words that our Master-asws does not pray Salat, so he-asws is the first one to have prayed to Allah-azwj with His-azwj Rasool-saww, and most understanding in the religion of Allah-azwj, and foremost with Rasool-Allah-saww. And as for the ones you see with him-asws, all of them are readers of the Book, not sleeping at night, keeping vigil. So, do not be deceived about your religion by the wretched deceivers’. The youth said, ‘O servant of Allah-azwj! I think you are a righteous person. Inform me, do you find any repentance to be for me? ’ He said, ‘Yes. Repent to Allah-azwj, He-azwj will Turn to you (with Mercy)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘The youth went away returning. A man from the people of Syria said, ‘The Iraqi has deceived you! ’ He said, ‘No, but he advised me’. And Hashim fought, he and his companions, a severe battle, until he killed nine persons or ten, and Al-Haris Bin Al-Munzir attacked upon him and stabbed him, so he fell down. And Ali-asws sent a message to him: ‘Advance your flag’. He said to the messenger, ‘Look at my belly’, and there it was, having been ruptured. A man from Bakr Bin Wail took the flag and Hashim raised his head, and there he was with Ubeydullah Bin Umar Bin Al-Khattab, killed to his side. He went until he was close from him and he bit upon his chest until his bite marks appeared in it. Then Hashim died and he was upon the chest of Ubeydullah. And the Bukry was struck and he fell. He sighted Ubeydullah, so he bit upon his other part of the chest and died as well. They were both found dead upon the chest of Ubeydullah. And when Hashim was killed, the people panicked upon it with severe alarm, and there was slain with him a group from Aslam, from the readers. Ali-asws passed by them and they had been slain around him-asws. He-asws said (a poem): ‘May Allah-azwj Recompense goodly the Aslamiya group, bright of faces, lying down around Hashim – Yazeed, and Abdullah Bishr, and Ma’bad, and Sufyan, and two sons of Hashim with manners, and Urwah, his praise and mention is not remote, when they chose to wear the white swords’. Then Abdullah Bin Hashim stood up and took the flag’. Then he continued the Hadeeth up to his words, ‘Ali-asws ordered them with the advancing to the people. He-asws advanced them to the fighting and defeated the people of Syria, and the people of Al-Iraq had overcome upon the slain of the people of Hims, and the people of Syrian overcame upon the slain of the people of Al-Aliya, and Utba Bin Abu Sufyan was defeated until he came to Syrian. Then Ali-asws ordered a caller to call out among the people, ‘Go out to your rows! ’ The people went out to their rows, and the people fought up to near a third of the night’’. [46]