Hadith 383

Nasr said, ‘And it is narrated to me by Abu Abdul Rahman Al Masoudy, from Yunus Bin Al Arqam, from the one who narrated it, from elders of Bakr Bin Wail who said, ‘We were with Ali-asws at Siffeen, and Amro Bin Al-Aas raised a strip of black cloth at the top of a spear. The people said, ‘This is a flag Rasool-Allah-saww had tied for him. They did not cease to be narrating until that arrived to Ali-asws. He-asws said: ‘Do you know what this flag is? This is not a flag. Amr, Rasool-Allah-saww had brought out this cloth for him and said: ‘Who will take it with whatever is in it? ’ Amro said, ‘And what is in it, O Rasool-Allah-saww? ’ He-saww said: ‘You will not fight any Muslim with it, nor draw it closer to any Kafir’. So, he had taken it. By Allah-azwj! He has drawing it closer to the Polytheists, and fought the Muslims by it today. By the One-azwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! They had not become Muslims, but they had submitted, and they kept the Kufr as secret. When they found supporters upon it, they revealed it’’. [4]
Nasr Bin Muzahim said, ‘Ali-asws rode a mule of his-asws before the two armies met (in battle) at Siffeen. When the war presented and he-asws spent that night composing the battalions until morning, he-asws said: ‘Bring my-asws horse to me-asws! ’ They came with a horse of his-asws, pitch black, scratching the ground with both its forelegs. For it was neighing and whinnying. He-asws rode it and said: ‘Glory be to the One Who Subjugated this one for us, and we were not capable for it [43: 13]. And there is neither might nor strength except with Allah-azwj, the Exalted, the Magnificent’’. [5]