Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-634b

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"From Jundab, who said: When the Kharijites separated from Ali, he went out in pursuit of them, and we went out with him. We reached the camp of the people, and there was for them a humming like the humming of bees from the recitation of the Qur'an, and among them were the owners of the naqabat and the owners of the baranis. When I saw them, a fear entered me because of that, so I withdrew, planted my spear, dismounted from my horse, took off my burnous, spread my armor upon it, took hold of my horse's bridle, and stood praying toward my spear, saying in my prayer: "O Allah, if fighting these people is obedience to You, then permit me to do it, and if it is disobedience, then show me Your pardon." While we were like that, Ali ibn Abi Talib came up on the mule of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When he reached me, he said: "Seek refuge in Allah, O Jundab, from the evil of wrath." I came walking toward him, and he dismounted and stood praying. Then a man came and said: "O Commander of the Faithful! Do you have a need among the people?" He said: "And what is that?" He said: "They have crossed the river and gone." He said: "They did not cross it." He said: "Subhan Allah!" Then another came and said: "They have crossed the river and gone." Ali said: "They did not cross it." Then another came and said: "They have crossed the river and gone." Ali said: "They did not cross it, and they will not cross it, and [some] of us will be killed before it; it is a covenant from Allah and His Messenger." Then he mounted and said to me: "O Jundab! As for me, I will send to them a man who reads the mushaf, calling them to the Book of their Lord and the Sunnah of their Prophet. He will not turn his face toward us until they shoot him with arrows. O Jundab! Indeed, not ten of us will be killed, and not ten of them will be saved." Then he said: "Who will take this mushaf and walk with it to these people, calling them to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of their Prophet, while he is killed and has Paradise?" No one answered him except a young man from the Banu 'Amir ibn Sa'sa'ah. Ali said to him: "Take this mushaf. Indeed, you will be killed, and you will not turn your face toward us until they shoot you with arrows." The young man went out with the mushaf to the people. When he came close to them, where they could hear him, they stood up and urged the youth to turn back, and he shot at him. He turned his face toward us and sat down. Ali said: "Take the people." Jundab said: "I killed eight with this hand of mine before I prayed the Zuhr, and not ten of us were killed, and not ten of them were saved, just as he had said.""

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