Hadith 389

And from Umar Bin Sa’ad, from Malik Bin Ayn, from Zayd Bin Wahab who said, ‘When Ali-asws went out to them in the early morning of that day, then faced him-asws. He-asws raised his-asws hands towards the sky and said: ‘O Allah-azwj! Lord-azwj of this ceiling (sky), the protected, the withholding which You-azwj have Made it a container (of rain) of the night and the day, and Made in it the flow of the sun and the moon, and positions of the planets and the stars, and Made its dwellers being abundant, from the Angels and they are not getting tired [41: 38] of the worship. And Lord-azwj of this earth which You-saww Made it a dwelling for the cattle, and the insects, and the animals, and what cannot be counted from what is seen and what cannot be seen from His-azwj Magnificent creatures. And Lord-azwj of the ships which sail in the sea with what benefits the people, and what Allah Sends down from the sky, and Lord-azwj of the clouds subservient between the sky and the earth [2: 164], and Lord-azwj of And the swelling sea [52: 6], and the Encompassing with the worlds, and Lord-azwj of the high mountain which He-azwj Made as pegs of the earth, and a provision for the people. If You-azwj were to Cause us to prevail over our enemies, then Save us from the rebels, and Guide us to the truth, and if You-azwj were to Cause them to prevail over us, then Grace us the martyrdom and Protect the remainder of my-asws companions from the Fitna’. When they saw him-asws to have come, they advanced towards him-asws marching, and he-asws on that day on his-asws right flank was Abdullah Bin Budeyl, and the people were upon their respective flags and their stations, and Ali-asws was in the centre among the people of Al-Medina, most of them being the Helpers, and with him-asws was from (clans of) Juza’a and Kinana, a good number. Nasr said, ‘An Muawiya raised a large dome and cast chairs upon it and sat beneath it, and there had been three days for them before that day, and it was the fourth day from Safar, and Muhammad Bin Al-Hanafiya came out during this day among a crowd from the people of Al Iraq. Muawiya sent out to him Ubeydullah Bin Umar Bin Al-Khatt