[1] Ubaidullah’s mouth watered and he gave a positive reply to Muawiyah.

[1] Ubaidullah’s mouth watered and he gave a positive reply to Muawiyah. He deviated from the truth and joined the forces of oppression and injustice while he had 8000 soldiers with him. [2] He did not pay any heed to humiliation and embezzlement. He completely disregarded the terrible harm he had brought for the [1] Ibne Abil Hadid, Sharh Nahjul Balagha 4/27-29 [2] Yaqubi, Tarikh , 25/214 troops of his cousin as a result of which all the unity and stability of the troops was destroyed.

The breach of trust was not limited to Ubaidullah. Other commanders of the Imam’s troops also defected to Muawiyah. And they left the Imam crushed in disunited troops and they left him in sorrow and pain.

The Imam’s hardships and problems were not restricted to the defection of his commanders because the Imam’s problems increased further and regiments of that army committed atrocious acts against the Holy Imam (‘a) as follows: 1 – Cruelty to the Imam The filthy character, Jarrah bin Sinan committed cruelty on the Imam and with a spear wounded the Imam’s thigh. The Imam was terribly wounded and he fell down and was taken for treatment.

[1] Another person, during the prayers, attacked the Imam with a sword. [2] Yet another man shot an arrow at the Imam though it caused him no harm. Imam**[3]** became certain that the Kufians were bent on killing and assassinating His Eminence. 2 – Associating Infidelity with Imam Hasan (‘a) That army was also sick in its faith and religion in such a way that they alleged the grandson of the Prophet and his darling to have become infidel and left the religion.

Thus Jarrah bin Sinan stood up in front of His Eminence and cried, “O Hasan! You have committed polytheism like your father did…!” [4] This was the view of most of the Khawarij and they inculcated this same view among the troops. 3 – The Great Breach of Trust The great breach of trust that the commanders of the army committed was that they wrote to Muawiyah and guaranteed to him that whenever he liked they would hand over the Imam to him as a prisoner or assassinate him.

[5] And this matter made the Imam very cautious that it may not be that he is taken a prisoner and handed over to Muawiyah and then Muawiyah does a favor to him by giving him amnesty. And this matter of Bani Umayyah doing favor to the family of the Prophet may be established as His Eminence has said regarding this in his statements after the treaty. [1] Al-Irshad , Pg.