Hadith 411

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is reported by Al Kulayni, from Malik Bin Ayn, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said when he-asws passed by a flag of the people of Syria: ‘Our companions will not be moved from their places. They will never be moved from their positions without the stabbing of your armour which would extract the soul, and a strike which splits the head and breaks the bones, and the wrists and the palms fall off, until their foreheads are cracked with the force of the iron, and their eyelids scatter upon their chests and the chins. Where are the people and the seekers of the Recompense? ’
A band of Muslims marched, and its right wing returned back to its place and its centre wing, and exposed those facing them. He-asws returned until he-asws ended up to them, and said: ‘I-asws had seen your forces’ – and he continued the Hadeeth approximate to what has passed up to his-asws words: – and you dislodged them from their rows just as they had dislodged you (beforehand), and you were striking them with the swords to the extent that their first ones rode upon their last ones like the camel driven away. As for now, so be patient and tranquillity would descend upon you, and Allah-azwj will Affirm you with the conviction, and the defeated one would know that he has Angered his Lord-azwj and would rebuke himself. In the fleeing is the Fury of Allah-azwj, and the humiliation is necessitated, and the remaining stigma, and spoiling of the life over it. And the fleer is without an increase in his age, and there is no barrier between him and between his day (of death), nor would his Lord-azwj be Pleased with him, and for a death to come to the man before he indulges in such characteristics is better than the pleasure of being clothed by these (characteristics) and agreeing over it’’. [35]