Hadith 403

Nasr said, ‘And it is narrated to me by Amro Bin Al Zubeyr who said, ‘I have heard Al Huzeyn Bin Al Munzir saying
‘On that day, Ali-asws gave me a flag of Rabie, and Muzar, and said, ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj! Go, O Huzeyn, and know that no flag will flap upon your head like this flag. This is a flag of Rasool-Allah-azwj’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Urfa’a Jabala Bin Atiya Al-Zuhly came to Al Huzeyn and said, ‘Is it for you that you give me the flag to carry it, so its mention would be for you, and its Recompense would be for me? ’ Al-Huzeyn said, ‘And what would its mention avail me, O uncle, away from its Recompense? ’ He said, ‘There would be no availing with you from that, but let your uncle show it for a moment, then he will quickly return it to you’. Huzeyn said, ‘So, I knew that he would be killed and he wanted to die as a fighter. I said to him, ‘Take it’. He took it, then he said to his companions. ‘The working for the Paradise is disliked, all of it, and heavy, and working for the Fire is easy, all of it, and beloved. The Paradise is such, none will enter it except the ones being patient upon the religion, having been patient themselves upon the Obligations of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Commands. And there is nothing from what Allah-azwj has Obligated upon the servant, more difficult than the Jihad. It is the most superior of the deeds in Rewards in the Presence of Allah-azwj. So, when you see me to have become intense, then intensify yourselves. Woe be unto you! Are you desirous to the Paradise? Are you not loving that Allah-azwj should Forgive for you all? ’
He intensified, and they intensified along with him, and they fought a severe battle. Abu Arfa’a was killed, Rabie were intensified after that with mighty severity upon the rows of the people of Syria’. Nasr said, ‘The people trembled on that day with the swords until they were cut and broken, and became like the machetes and stabbing with the spears until they were scattered. Then they knelt at the riders, and they were throwing the soil, then they wrestled, and bit with the mouths, then they pelted with the rocks and the stones. Then they barricaded. So, the man from the people of Al-Iraq would pass by the people of Syria and he would say, ‘How can I go to the flag of the