إِنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) لَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ أَتَاهُ سَبْعُونَ رَجُلًا مِنَ الزُّطِّ فَسَلَّمُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ كَلَّمُوهُ بِلِسَانِهِمْ فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِمْ بِلِسَانِهِمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمْ إِنِّي لَسْتُ كَمَا قُلْتُمْ أَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ مَخْلُوقٌ فَأَبَوْا عَلَيْهِ وَ قَالُوا أَنْتَ هُوَ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ لَئِنْ لَمْ تَنْتَهُوا وَ تَرْجِعُوا عَمَّا قُلْتُمْ فِيَّ وَ تَتُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَأَقْتُلَنَّكُمْ فَأَبَوْا أَنْ يَرْجِعُوا وَ يَتُوبُوا فَأَمَرَ أَنْ تُحْفَرَ لَهُمْ آبَارٌ فَحُفِرَتْ ثُمَّ خَرَقَ بَعْضَهَا إِلَى بَعْضٍ ثُمَّ قَذَفَهُمْ فِيهَا ثُمَّ خَمَّرَ رُءُوسَهَا ثُمَّ أُلْهِبَتِ النَّارُ فِي بِئْرٍ مِنْهَا لَيْسَ فِيهَا أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ فَدَخَلَ الدُّخَانُ عَلَيْهِمْ فِيهَا فَمَاتُوا .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Salih Bin Sahl, from Kirdayn, (It has been narrated) from a man from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> and Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said that when Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> was free from the people of Al-Basra (Battle of the Camel), seventy men from Al-Zat came over. So they greeted him<sup>asws</sup> and spoke to him<sup>asws</sup> in their own language. So he<sup>asws</sup> responded to them in their language. Then he<sup>asws</sup> said to them: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> am not as you are saying it to be. I<sup>asws</sup> am a servant of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, a Created being’. But they refused to him<sup>asws</sup> and said, ‘أَنْتَ هُوَ’ ‘You<sup>asws</sup> are He<sup>azwj</sup>!’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said to them: ‘If you do not cease and retract from what you are saying regarding me<sup>asws</sup>, and repent to Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic, I<sup>asws</sup> will kill you all’. But, they refused to retract and repent. So he<sup>asws</sup> ordered for wells to be dug out for them. So they dug them. Then he<sup>asws</sup> bore holes connecting each of these. Then he<sup>asws</sup> threw them into it. Then he<sup>asws</sup> covered the top of the wells. Then he<sup>asws</sup> inflamed a fire in the well in which there was no one from them. So the smoke entered upon them in those (wells). So they died’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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