May your people be sacrificed for [1] Tabari...

May your people be sacrificed for [1] Tabari, Tarikh , 4/509 [2] Ibne Athir, Tarikh 3/243-244 you, do not humiliate yourself.”[1] Ayesha was inspiring those who were at her right, at her left and in front of her and said, “Noble men are patient!” The Imam’s men tried to persuade Ayesha’s soldiers to stop fighting and their war-poem singers said: “O our mother, you are the worst kind of mother that we know because a mother feeds her children and is kind to them.

Don’t you see how many valiant ones are getting mourned and are losing their hands and arms?”[2] Ayesha’s supporters cried in response: “We are the Bani Zabaa and the folks of the camel and we fight with ferocity if they come before us. Getting killed is sweeter for us than honey…