There was a foster mother for him and she was a soothsayer...
There was a foster mother for him and she was a soothsayer, and she used to marvel at his youth and the largeness of his body and said to him, ‘Fight everyone who fights you and you will overcome everyone (who tries to) overcomes upon you, except the one who is named to you as ‘Haider’, for if you were to stop to him, you will die’.
قَالَ فَلَمَّا كَثُرَ مُنَاوَشَتُهُ وَ جَزِعَ النَّاسُ بِمُقَاوَمَتِهِ شَكَوْا ذَلِكَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص وَ سَأَلُوهُ أَنْ يُخْرِجَ إِلَيْهِ عَلِيّاً ع فَدَعَا النَّبِيُّ ص عَلِيّاً وَ قَالَ لَهُ يَا عَلِيُّ اكْفِنِي مَرْحَباً فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَلَمَّا بَصُرَ بِهِ مَرْحَبٌ يُسْرِعُ إِلَيْهِ فَلَمْ يَرَهُ يَعْبَأُ بِهِ فَأَنْكَرَ ذَلِكَ وَ أَحْجَمَ عَنْهُ ثُمَّ أَقْدَمَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ أَنَا الَّذِي سَمَّتْنِي أُمِّي مَرْحَباً He said, ‘When his skirmishes were a lot and the people were alarmed at his standing (in the battlefield), that was grievous upon the Prophet -saww , and they asked him -saww to bring Ali -asws out to him.
The Prophet -saww called Ali -asws and said to him -asws : ‘O Ali -asws ! Suffice me -saww of Marhab’. So, Amir Al-Momineen -asws went out to him. When Marhab sighted him, he was quick to him -asws but could not see any fault with him -asws . He did not like that and flinched (shied away) from him -asws . Then he went forward and said, ‘I am the one my mother named me as Marhab’.
فَأَقْبَلَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ أَنَا الَّذِي سَمَّتْنِي أُمِّي حَيْدَرَةَ Ali -asws came and he -asws was saying: ‘I -asws am the one my -asws mother -asws named me -asws as ‘Haider’.
فَلَمَّا سَمِعَهَا مِنْهُ مَرْحَبٌ هَرَبَ وَ لَمْ يَقِفْ خَوْفاً مِمَّا حَذَّرَتْهُ مِنْهُ ظِئْرُهُ فَتَمَثَّلَ لَهُ إِبْلِيسُ فِي صُورَةِ حِبْرٍ مِنْ أَحْبَارِ الْيَهُودِ فَقَالَ إِلَى أَيْنَ يَا مَرْحَبُ فَقَالَ قَدْ تَسَمَّى عَلَيَّ هَذَا الْقِرْنُ بِحَيْدَرَةَ فَقَالَ لَهُ إِبْلِيسُ فَمَا حَيْدَرَةُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ فُلَانَةَ ظِئْرِي كَانَتْ تُحَذِّرُنِي مِنْ مُبَارَزَةِ رَجُلٍ اسْمُهُ حَيْدَرَةُ وَ تَقُولُ إِنَّهُ قَاتِلُكَ When Marhab heard it from him -asws , he fled and did not stop out of fear cautioned by his foster mother about him -asws .
Iblees -la resembled for him in an image of a Rabbi from the Rabbis of the Jews and said: ‘To where, O Marhab?’ He said, ‘This one has named upon me as Haider’. Iblees -la said to him, ‘So, what is Haider?’ He said, ‘My so and so foster mother has warned me from duelling a man whose name is Haider and she said that he -asws would kill me’.