Hadith 379

Nasr said, ‘I am informed by Umar Bin Sa’ad, from Al Hajjaj Bin Artah, from Abdullah Bin Ammar Bin Abd Yagous, ‘Ali-asws said to the people of Al-Raqqah: ‘Build a bridge for me-asws I-asws can cross upon it from this place to Syria’. They refused, and they had joined the ships to them. He-asws got up from their presence in order to cross over the bridge of Manbij, and left behind Al-Ashtar upon them. He called out to them, ‘O people of this fortress! I swear by Allah-azwj, if you do not build a bridge for him-asws at your city so he-asws can cross from it, I will unshielded the sword among you and kill your fighters, and ruin your land, and seize your wealth! ’ They met each other and said, ‘Al-Ashtar will be loyal with what he is swearing, and rather Ali-asws has sworn in our presence that he-saww will bring evil to us’. They sent a message to him, ‘We shall install a bridge for you, so come back’. Al-Ashtar sent a message to Ali-asws, so he-asws came and they installed the bridge for him, and they crossed over the loads and the men, and he-asws instructed Al Ashtar to pause among three thousand horsemen until there does not remain anyone from the people except he had crossed, then the he crossed as last of the people. Al-Hajjaj said, ‘And the cavalry thronged when they crossed, and a hat of Abdullah Bin Abu Al-Huseyn fall down. He descended to take it, and rode on. Then the cap of Abdullah Bin Al-Hajaj dropped. He descended to take it, then rode on. He said to his companion (a couplet), ‘If the rebuker of the bird thinks he is truthful just as they are claiming, then no doubt I will be killed and you will be killed’. Abdullah Bin Abu Al-Husayn said, ‘There is nothing more beloved to me than what you have mentioned’. They were both killed together on the day of Siffeen’. Nasr (the reporter) said, ‘When he-asws had cut across the Euphrates, he-asws called Ziyad Bin Al-Nazar and Shareeh Bin Hany. He-asws sent them in front to around Muawiya among twelve thousand, and when he-asws had sent them from Al-Kufa as front men of his-asws, he-asws took with the banks of the Euphrates from a direction of the land, from what follows Al-Kufa, until they were both fatigued. Ali-asws took with the road of Al-Jazeera and they knew that Muawiya had come among armies of Syria from Damascus. They did not meet him and said, ‘By Allah-azwj! This is not a (good) view that we should travel and between us and Amir Al-Momineen-asws is this sea, and there is no goodness for us if we were to meet the hordes of Syria among fewer numbers, having been cut off from the help’. They went on to cross from Anaat, but its inhabitants prevented them and they withheld the ships from them. They turned around returning until they crossed from Hayet and they joined up with Ali-asws at a town besides Qarqaysiya. When they joined with Ali-asws, he-asws was surprised and said, ‘My-asws front men are coming from behind me-asws’. Ziyad And Shareeh informed him with the view they had both viewed. He-asws said: ‘You have correctly hit your guidance’. When he-asws crossed over the Euphrates, he-asws