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us and so he got upset with me and did not sleep by me.” Rasūl Allah H
thus told a person, “See where he is.” He returned and said, “He is sleeping
in the Masjid, O Rasūl Allah.” Rasūl Allah H came to him. He was lying
asleep and his shawl had fallen from his side and consequently had become
dusty. Rasūl Allah H started to dust the sand off him and said, “Stand,
O Abū Turāb, stand, O Abū Turāb.” 1
Likewise Hishām ibn Ismāʿīl wanted Yazīd ibn Umayyah, Abū Sinān al-Dīlī, 2 born
during the Battle of Uḥud, to revile ʿAlī I. But he replied thusly:
ل أسبه ولكن إن شئت قمت فذكرت أيامه الصالحة ومواطنه
I will not revile him. But if you want I can stand up and mention his glorious
days and places. 3
And Ziyād said to one of them:
لتلعننه أو لضربن عنقك
You better curse him or else I will slay you. 4
Likewise, Ḥajjāj had ordered several men to curse ʿAlī I, amongst them were
the following:
1 Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: chapter of merits: sub-chapter regarding the merits of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib I: ḥadīth
no. 2409.
2 Yazīd ibn Umayyah al-Dīlī, Abū Sinān al-Madanī. A reliable successor whom some scholars have
adjudged amongst the Ṣaḥābah. I did not come across the date of his demise. His narrations appear
in the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Mājah. See: al-Thiqāt 5/537; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 32/86; al-
Kāshif 2/380; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 11/274.
3 Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr 8/319; al-Tārīkh al-Awsaṭ 1/206; al-Thiqāt 5/537; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl32/87.
4 Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 24/259; Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī 3/225; al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 3/330; al-Bidāyah wa al-
Nihāyah 9/234.
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