The Muslim community and their mujtahids made a lot of efforts to bring back this rebellious community. But according to the prediction of the great Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, through revelation, this people’s misguided purpose led to the shedding of Muslims’ blood due to their false interpretations. For this reason, the fatwa of this group was previously issued by the great prophet, where they say: (There are people who leave Islam as an arrow leaves a bow, they recite the Qur’an but it does not go beyond their throat [they do not understand the Qur’an and make a wrong impression] Blessed are those who kill them and are killed [martyred by the Kharijites] Their sign is a man with a deformed hand among them.)
And also see the noble companion who considers this people to be the most evil people. On the authority of Umayr bin Ishaq, he said: “Mention the Khawarij in the presence of Abu Hurairah, and he said: “ They are the worst ”
Start of war
The Khawarij went to Hazrat Ali, may God be pleased with him, and in Hazrat Ali’s army, the cavalry was in front of him and the archers were behind him, and the line of infantry was behind his cavalry. He told his companions: Do not have anything to do with them; unless they attack you first; But the Khawarij used to say: “There is no ruling except Allah” movement, movement towards heaven; Then they attacked the cavalry that Ali had placed at the beginning and dispersed them, so that some of them went to the right and others to the left of the army, and the archers were in front of them and shot towards them, and the cavalry attacked them from the left and right, and the infantry attacked them with spears and swords, and the Khawarij were killed, and they were placed on the ground under the horses’ hooves, and their commanders, Abdullah bin Wahb, Harqus bin Zuhair , Shareih bin Awfi and Abdullah bin Sakhbara Salimi were also killed.
Abu Ayyub says: I hit the body of one of the Khawarij with a spear and he came out from behind and I said to him: O enemy of God, may the good news of hell be upon you. He said: You will know which one of us is more deserving to burn in the fire of hell. Many of the Kharijites withdrew from the war because of a sentence they heard from Abdullah bin Wahb Rasbi, a sentence that showed their weak vision and weak certainty. It was at this time that Ali, may God be pleased with him, struck one of the Kharijites with his sword, the foreigner said: How nice it is to go to heaven and Abdullah bin Wahhab said: I don’t know whether to go to heaven or hell.
A person from Bani Saad whose name was “Farwa bin Noufal Ashjai” said: I was deceived by this man and came to this war, and for now I see that he is in doubt. Therefore, he withdrew a group of his companions and went towards Abu Ayyub Ansari with a thousand people, and the people were also slowly going in that direction.
It was a hard and short war that took place on part of the ninth day of the month of Safar in the year 38 Hijri 9/2/38 AH. 7
This quick war led to the death of many people from the Khawarij, while the situation was completely opposite for Ali’s army, and based on what Muslim has extracted from “Zayd bin Wahhab” in his Sahih, the number of people killed in Hazrat Ali’s army was only There were two people.
In another narration with a sahih chain, it is stated: “Twelve or thirteen of the companions of Hazrat Ali, may God be pleased with him, were killed.”
In the authentic narration, it is stated that “Abu Majalz” says: By Muslims, he meant the army of Hazrat Ali, may God be pleased with him; No one was killed except “nine”, if you want, go to Abu Barzah and ask him, and he will testify about this; However, regarding the killed Khawarij, many narrations mention that all of them were killed.
Masoudi mentions that a small number, which did not exceed ten people, fled after a severe defeat.
There are various narrations about the character of “Zul-Thadiyyah” or the paralyzed man and the effect of his death by Hazrat Ali’s army, some of these narrations are weak in terms of evidence and others are strong, and the attributes and characteristics of “Zul-Thidiyyah” are mentioned in the prophetic hadiths, including the fact that he was black. And in the Abyssinian narration, it is stated that his hand was loose and folded and incomplete, and it was only from the shoulder to the arm (he did not have a forearm), and at the end of his arm was something like a nipple, and there were white bumps on it like the barley, and his arm was not fixed, as if it was without bones, because it moved involuntary; However, the expressions “Mukhdaj Al-Yid”, “Mudun Al-Yid” and “Muthdun Al-Yid” in hadiths all mean imperfect hand.
But about his name, those who said that “Zulthadiyyah” was the same as Harqus bin Zuhair Saadi, have made a mistake.
Harqus was a famous man who played an important role in Islamic conquests; Then he went out against Hazrat Uthman, may God be pleased with him, and after the first (small) war of Jamal, in which Zubair and Talha, may God be pleased with him, killed and the killers of Hazrat Uthman in Basra, he fled and Harqus became one of the famous leaders of the Khawarij; It has been “Zulthadiyyah” (Harqus); But no one knows his father. In another narration, it is stated that his name was Malik; because when Ali’s companions searched for him and found him among the dead, Hazrat Ali said: “Allah is great, does anyone among you say who is his father?” People said it was the Malik. Hazrat Ali, may God be pleased with him, said: Whose son is he? But no one knew his father.
In a narration that Tabari considers to be correct, it is stated that his name was “Nafee Dhul-Thadiyyah”, as Ibn Abi Shaiba and Abu Dawud have also mentioned this; however, the method of narration is the same in both of them, and what is mentioned in these three sources is considered as one narration with one method.
Hazrat Ali, may God be pleased with him, spoke about them from the beginning of the Kharijite innovation, and in many cases he mentioned “Zul-Thadiyyah” and that he was their sign and described his attributes. After the end of the war, Ali Karram-Allah-o-WaJah gave orders to find the body of Zul-Thadiyyah. [Because his presence among the Khawarij was one of the signs that Ali was right and on the right path] After searching for a while, Amirul Momineen saw a group of bodies lying on top of each other by the river, and said: Separate them. Suddenly, he said: “Dhul-Thadiyyah” is under all of them and stuck to the ground. Ali, may God be pleased with him, said Takbeer and then said, “He is telling the truth, the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, conveyed the news correctly.” Then he prostrated in gratitude and people were happy when they saw him and said Takbeer.
There are several points in this narration of the war (Nahruvan):
First: prediction through revelation by the Holy Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace; this truthfulness of his is an example of the verse:
Translation: (I swear by the star in it) The time that sets! [Muhammad] has not gone astray and does not speak out of whim and caprice. That [what he brought with him and shared with you] is nothing but a revelation and a message, which [from God] is a revelation and a message.) This is a sign of the truth of his prophecy.
Second: the jurisprudential issue of prostration of thanksgiving which Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) performed and it is appropriate for the rest of the Muslims to perform prostration of thanksgiving after victory in the war with the infidels or hearing good news.
Third: that the first vanguard of Qaran al-Shaytaan, which comes later in the hadiths, is proud in every moment of time and difference, that the first of them suffered a heavy defeat by the army of companions, may God’s prayers and peace be upon them all.
Fourth: Hazrat Ali’s ultimate meekness and patience and not starting a war proved that they are allowed to live without sedition and bloodshed as long as they themselves did not start fighting with Muslims and sedition.
Fifth: Their total insistence on fighting was caused by their corrupt prejudice and even when they died, they considered themselves as the people of Jannah and started the war by moving towards heaven and singing the slogan “Lahkam ila Allah”.
Sixth: The weak certainty of those who weakened and surrendered when their leaders were killed, is a sign of their falsehood, and the other is that their war was to save their lives from revenge (the decision to retaliate against the killers of Hazrat Uthman), which was mentioned in the past. Or, like their great-grandfather, “Zul-Khoysera” was rude because of the booty and wealth of the world, they also fought to save their lives and achieve worldly goods except for the number of some of their scholars and their ignorance.
By محمد فاتح
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