Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Despite him attaining victory, he was unable to completely extirpate them, for
there were many amongst them who did not take part in the war at all. 1 That is
besides the four hundred who were wounded but not killed. 2 These people thus
still remained upon their false beliefs of him being a disbeliever and their defeat
had merely embittered them and infuriated them even more against him.
Thus one of them once came and stood at the head of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar L
and said, “By Allāh I hate ʿAlī.” Ibn ʿUmar raised his head to him and said, “May
Allāh hate you, do you hate a person whose one feat is better than this world and
whatever it contains.” 3
Likewise another person came to him and asked him regarding ʿAlī I. He thus
mentioned his good deeds and then said:
هو ذاك بيته أوسط بيوت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
He is that person whose household is the highest of all the households of
Nabī H.
He then asked him, “Probably this offends you?” to which the man replied, “Yes”
whereupon he said:
فأرغم الله بأنفك!‏ انطلق فاجهد علي جهدك
May Allāh soil your nose with dust, go and try whatever you can against
me. 4
1 Al-Khawārij Tārīkhuhum wa ʾĀrāʾuhum al-Iʿtiqādiyyah p. 126.
2 Al-Muntaẓam 5/193; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 7/289.
3 Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah: chapter of merits: sub-chapter regarding the virtues of ʿAlī ibn Ṭālib
I: ḥadīth no. 32127.
4 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: chapter regarding the merits of the Ṣaḥābah M: sub-chapter regarding the
merits of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib I: ḥadīth no. 3501.
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