They had to break their necks and arrest them.

They had to break their necks and arrest them.” Malik Ashtar bought a camel for seven hundred dirhams, sent it to Aisha, and told her that I sent this camel to replace the camel that was killed in the battle. Aisha replied: “May Allah not bless him, he killed the great Arab (Talha’s son) and did whatever he wanted with my niece.” When this message reached Ashtar, he raised his sleeve and said: “They wanted to kill me.

I had no choice but to do what I did.” And thus, the battle and the killing of six thousand or ten thousand Muslims ended. When Ali…