Hadith 340

And from Al Shaby who said, ‘Jareer and Al-Ashtar gathered in the presence of Ali-asws. Al-Ashtar said, ‘I had forbidden you-asws, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws, from sending Jareer, and I had informed you of his enmity and his deceit’, and Al-Ashtar went on to accuse him and saying, ‘O brother of Bajeela! Usman bought your world from you at Hamdan. By Allah-azwj! You are not rightful to even walk above the ground alive. But rather, you went to them in order to take a favour in their presence with your journeying to them. Then you returned to us from their presence threatening us with them, and by Allah-azwj, you are from them, and I do not see your efforts except being for them, and if Amir Al-Momineen-asws had agreed to me regarding you, you and the likes of you would be in prison, not coming out from it until you become aware from these matters and Allah-azwj Destroys the unjust’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When Jareer heard that, he joined up with Kyrgiza, and some people from (clan of) Qays joined with him, and there did not attend (battle of) Siffeen from (clan of) Qays apart from nineteen men, but (clan of Ahmas), seven hundred men from them attended it. And Ali-asws went out to the house of Jareer, and he was dishevelled from it, and his seat had been burnt, and Abu Zur’a Amro Bin Jareer came out and said, ‘May Allah-azwj Keep you well! There are in it as well, other than Jareer’. Ali-asws came out from it to the house of Suweyr Bin Aamir and burnt it and demolished from it. And Suweyr was a noble man, and he had joined up with Jareer’’. [21]