Al-Kafi 8234

Translation

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad Al Ashary, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al Washa, from Aban Bin usman, from Abu Hamza Al Sumaly who said, ‘I said to Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws that Ali^asws dealt among the people of the Qiblah (Muslims) with opposite to the way of Rasool-Allah^saww among the people of the Polytheism’. So he^asws got angered, then said: ‘By Allah^azwj! He^asws dealt among them with the way of Rasool-Allah^saww on the day of the victory. Ali^asws wrote to Maalik, and he was at the forefront on the day of Al-Basra, that he would not thrust among the ones who are not facing him, nor would he kill a fleeing one, nor would he attack upon the injured, and the one who locks his door, so he is safe. So he (Maalik) took the letter and placed it in front of him upon the saddle before reading it, then said, ‘Fight’. So they fought them until they made them enter the markets of Al-Basra. Then he opened the letter, so he read it, then ordered a caller, so he called out with was was in the letter’.

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