Hadith 380

d we are ones who view the restrain until we call you and argue against you. And this other (thing) you have done. You have formed a barrier between the people and the water, so vacate between them and it until we consider regarding what is between us and you all, and regarding what we have arrived to and you have arrived to, and if it was more beloved to you that we leave what we have come for and call the people to fighting over the water until the overcomer would happen to be the drinker, we shall do so’. When Sa’sa’a went with his-asws message to Muawiya, Muawiya said to his companions, what are your views? ’ Al-Waleed Bin Uqba said, ‘Prevent the water from them just as they had prevented if from (Usman) Ibn Affan. They had besieged him for forty days preventing him the cold water, and soft food. They killed him thirsty, may Allah-azwj Kill them’. And Amro Bin Al-Aas said, ‘Vacate between the people and the water, for they will never be thirsty and you are saturated, but for other than the water, look into what is between you and them’. Al-Waleed repeated his words. And Abdullah Bin Saeed Bin Abu Sarh said, and he was a brother of Usman from breast-feeding, ‘Prevent them the water to the night, for they will not be able upon it, they would returned, and their returning would be their defeat. Prevent them the water, may Allah-azwj Prevent them on the Day of Qiyamah’. Sa’sa’a said, ‘But the water would be prevented on the Day of Qiyamah to the immoral, the Kafirs, the drinkers of wine, being an example of you and an example of this mischief-maker’, meaning Al-Waleed. They leapt to him reviling him and threatening him. Muawiya said, ‘Refrain from the man, for rather he is only a messenger’. Abdullah Bin Awf said, ‘When Sa’sa’a returned to us, he narrated to us with what Muawiya had said, and what had happened from him, and what he had responded upon us, and said, ‘When I wanted to leave from his presence, I said, ‘What is your response to Ali-asws’. He said, ‘My view will soon come to you’. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj we do not care except the settlement of the men and the rows and the horses’. He (Muawiya) sent a message to Abu Al-Awr, ‘Prevent them the water. By Allah-azwj! We are near to them, so they might shoot at us with arrows, and stable with the spears, and strike at us with the swords’. That was prolonged between us and them until the water came to be in our hands. We said, ‘No by Allah-azwj! We will not quench them’. Ali-asws sent a message: ‘Take from the water to your needs and return to your encampment, and vacate between them and the water, for Allah-azwj has helped you against them due to their rebellion and their injustices’. And Nasr (the reporter) said, ‘Amro Bin Al-Aas said, ‘Vacate between them and the water, for Ali-asws did not happen to be thirsty and you are saturated, and in his-asws hands is the rein of the cavalry, and he-asws is looking at the Euphrates until he-asws drinks, or he-asws dies, and you know that he-asws is brave hammer, and I have heard repeatedly and he-asws was say