Hadith 377

Nasr said, ‘And it is narrated to us by Abdul Aziz Bin Sayah, from Habeeb Bin Abu Sabit, from Abu Saeed Al Taymi well known as Aqeesa who said, ‘We were with Ali-asws in his-asws journey to Syria until when we were at the back of Al-Kufa, from a side of this desert, the people were thirsty and they were needy to the water. Ali-asws walked with us until he-asws came to an edgy rock in the ground as if it was a tooth of a goat. He-asws ordered us and we uprooted it, and water came out to us from under it. The people drank from it until they were saturated. Then he-asws instructed and we covered upon it, and the people travelled until when they had continued a little, he-asws said: ‘Is there anyone from you who knows the place of this water which you have drunk from? ’ They said, ‘Yes, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws’. He-asws said: ‘Then go to it’. Men from us went riding and walking, and we crossed the road to it until we ended up to the place which we view it was it. We sought it but were unable upon anything. When it was difficult upon us, we went to a monastery nearby from us and asked them, ‘Where is this water which is with you? ’ They said, ‘There is no water near us’. We said, ‘Yes, we have drunk from it’. They said, ‘You have drunk from it? ’ We said, ‘Yes’. The one in-charge of the monastery said, ‘By Allah-azwj! This monastery has not been built except with that water, and no one can extract it except a Prophet-as of a successor-as or a Prophet-as’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he-asws continued until he-asws descended at a land of Al-Jazeera, and was welcomed by the clan of Taglib and Al-Namr Bin Qasit at Jazour. He-asws said to Yazeed Bin Qays Al-Arhaby: ‘O Yazeed! ’ He said, ‘At your-asws service, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! ’ He-asws said: ‘These are your people, so eat from their food and drink from their drinks’. He said, ‘Yes’. Then he-asws travelled until Al-Raqqah, and most of its people were Usmanites (supporters of Usman) having fled from Al-Kufa to Muawiya. They locked their doors to him-asws and secluded. And their chief was Simak Bin Makhramah Al-Asady at Al-Qarrah, being in obedience of Muawiya, and he had separated from Ali-asws among approximately one hundred men from the clan of Asad, then bonded with Muawiya and stayed at Al-Raqqah until he was joined by seven hundred men from them’. Then Nasr said, ‘Habbat has reported that when Ali-asws descended upon Al-Raqqah, he-asws descended upon a place called Al-Baleekh, by a side of the Euphrates. A monk descended from his cave and said to Ali-asws, ‘There is a letter with us we have inherited from our forefathers, written by companions of Isa-as Bi