In any case...

In any case, by describing them as a baghi group, the Prophet was indicating that they were a banned group, and that fighting them was compulsory upon all living Muslims at the time of the Battle of Siffin. Moreover, there is a clear indication in the above verse that the non- baghi group is upon the Command of Allah, and has not strayed from it in the least. This is another point in the hadith : ‘Ali and his army were upon the Command of Allah in the war.

This fact is strengthened even further by the Prophet’s description of ‘Ammar as calling the baghi group to Paradise. A rather disturbing quality of Mu’awiyah and his armies is that they were callers to Hellfire, according to the mutawatir hadith . Apparently, this nullifies any…