ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِعَمَّارٍ اصْعَدِ الْجَبَلَ...

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِعَمَّارٍ اصْعَدِ الْجَبَلَ فَاضْرِبْ بِعَصَاكَ هَذِهِ وُجُوهَ رَوَاحِلِهِمْ فَارْمِ بِهَا فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ عَمَّارٌ فَنَفَرَتْ بِهِمْ‏ وَ سَقَطَ بَعْضُهُمْ فَانْكَسَرَ عَضُدُهُ‏ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنِ انْكَسَرَتْ رِجْلُهُ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنِ انْكَسَرَ جَنْبُهُ وَ اشْتَدَّتْ لِذَلِكَ أَوْجَاعُهُمْ فَلَمَّا جَبَرَتْ وَ انْدَمَلَتْ بَقِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ آثَارُ الْكَسْرِ إِلَى أَنْ مَاتُوا Then Rasool-Allah -saww said to Ammar -ra : ‘Ascend the mountain, and strike with this staff of yours at the faces of their rides, and toss with it’.

Ammar -ra did that, and they (the rides) were frightened with them, and one of them fell down and broke his arms, and from them was the one who broke his leg, and from them was one who broke his side, and their pains intensified due to that. So, when the bones set and healed, the scars of the breaks remained upon them until they died.

وَ لِذَلِكَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع إِنَّهُمَا أَعْلَمُ النَّاسِ بِالْمُنَافِقِينَ لِقُعُودِهِ فِي أَصْلِ الْجَبَلِ‏ وَ مُشَاهَدَتِهِ مَنْ مَرَّ سَابِقاً لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ كَفَى اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ أَمْرَ مَنْ قَصَدَ لَهُ وَ عَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ And for that, Rasool-Allah -saww said regarding Huzeyfa and Amir Al-Momineen -asws : ‘Both of them are the most knowing of the people with the hypocrites’.

(For Huzeyfa) it was due to his being seated at the base of Al-Aqaba and his witnessing the ones who passed by preceding Rasool-Allah -saww . And Allah -azwj Sufficed His -azwj Rasool -saww of the matter of the ones who had aimed for him -saww ; and Rasool-Allah -saww returned to Al-Medina. فَكَسَى اللَّهُ الذُّلَّ وَ الْعَارَ مَنْ كَانَ قَعَدَ عَنْهُ وَ أَلْبَسَ الْخِزْيَ مَنْ كَانَ دَبَّرَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع مَا دَفَعَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ‏.

Thus Allah -azwj Disgraced and Shamed the ones who had sat (in ambush) from him -saww , and Clothed in humiliation the ones who had plotted against Ali -asws , what Allah -azwj had Defended him -asws from it’’. [5] Additional Ahadith related to Al-Aqaba are included in the Appendix.

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