And with Ali -asws were approximately four thousand from the...

And with Ali -asws were approximately four thousand from the Emigrants and the Helpers from the ones who had battled alongside with the Rasool-Allah -saww at Badr, and Al-Hudaybiyya, and his -saww other battles, and the rest of the men were the inhabitants of Al-Kufa except for the ones who followed him -asws from the inhabitants of Al-Basra, and Al-Hijaaz, for whom there was no emigration after having embraced Islam after the victory (of Mecca). Most of those four thousand were from the Helpers.