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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al Nass Wal Ijtihad the Army of Ussama Bin Zayd ============================== The Prophet (s) had cared much for this army. He ordered his companions to get ready and incited them too much to join this army. He himself mobilized them in order to sharpen their determinations and to awaken their ardors.

He let no one of the Muhajireen and Ansar, like Abu Bakr, Umar,[^1] Abu Ubayda, Sa’d and their likes, unless he mobilized him for the army.[^2] This was in Safar, the eleventh year of hijra. The next day the Prophet (s) sent for Ussama and said to him: “Go (with the army) to the place where your father has been killed. Let your horses tread on them (the Romans and the people of Sham). I have appointed you as the emir of this army. Attack the people of Ubna[^3] in the morning. Set fire to them.

Hasten to precede the news. If Allah makes you defeat them, do not stay long there. Take some guides with you and send spies and pioneers before you”. On the twenty-eighth of Safar, the Prophet (s) began to feel ill. He got fever and headache. In the morning of the twenty-ninth he found that his companions (the army) were sluggish. He went to them and [^1] The historians agreed upon that Abu Bakr and Umar were in this army and they proved that as an irrefutable fact.

Refer to at-Tabaqat by ibn Sa’d, At-Tabari’s Tareekh, Ibnul Atheer’s Tareekh, as-Seera ad-Dahlaniyya and others. Al-Halabi mentioned in his Seera, vol.3: “When al-Mahdi (the Abbasid caliph) came to Basra, he met Iyas bin Mo’awiya, who was very clever and intelligent. He was a young boy and behind him there were four hundred of ulama and notable men. Al-Mahdi said: “Woe to these beards!

Is not there among them a notable man to be at the head other than this boy?” Then al-Mahdi turned toward the boy and said to him: “How old are you, boy?” The boy said: “O Ameerul Mo'mineen, may Allah make you live long! My old is as the old of Ussama bin Zayd bin Haritha when the Prophet (s) has appointed him as the leader of an army, in which Abu Bakr and Umar were.” Al-Mahdi said: “Come on! May Allah bless you”. Al-Halabi mentioned that Ussama was seventeen years old then.

[^2] Umar often said to Ussama: “The Prophet (s) died and you were the emir over me”. Some historians mentioned this like al-Halabi in his Seera when talking about the army of Ussama.