فَقَالَ لَهُ إِبْلِيسُ شَوْهاً لَكَ لَوْ لَمْ يَكُنْ...
فَقَالَ لَهُ إِبْلِيسُ شَوْهاً لَكَ لَوْ لَمْ يَكُنْ حَيْدَرَةُ إِلَّا هَذَا وَحْدَهُ لَمَا كَانَ مِثْلُكَ يَرْجِعُ عَنْ مِثْلِهِ تَأْخُذُ بِقَوْلِ النِّسَاءِ وَ هُنَّ يُخْطِئْنَ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا يُصِبْنَ وَ حَيْدَرَةُ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَثِيرٌ فَارْجِعْ فَلَعَلَّكَ تَقْتُلُهُ فَإِنْ قَتَلْتَهُ سُدْتَ قَوْمَكَ وَ أَنَا فِي ظَهْرِكَ أَسْتَصْرِخُ الْيَهُودَ لَكَ Iblees -la said to him, ‘It would be damaging for you if there does not happen to be any Haider except this one along due to the like of you returning from the like of him -asws .
You are taking with the word of the women and they are mistaken more than what they are correct, and ‘Haider’s (names) in the world are a lot, therefore return, perhaps you will kill him -asws , and if you were to kill him your people would prevail, and I -la am covering your back and getting the Jews to scream their support for you’.
فَرَدَّهُ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا كَانَ إِلَّا كَفُوَاقِ نَاقَةٍ حَتَّى ضَرَبَهُ عَلِيٌّ ضَرْبَةً سَقَطَ مِنْهَا لِوَجْهِهِ وَ انْهَزَمَ الْيَهُودُ يَقُولُونَ قُتِلَ مَرْحَبٌ قُتِلَ مَرْحَبٌ So, he -la returned him. By Allah -azwj ! It wasn’t except like a hiccup of a camel until Ali -asws struck him with a strike, he fell to his face from it, and the Jews were defeated saying, ‘Marhab is killed!
Marhab is killed!’ قَالَ وَ فِي ذَلِكَ يَقُولُ الْكُمَيْتُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْأَسَدِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ فِي مَدْحِهِ ع شِعْراً سَقَى جُرَعَ الْمَوْتِ ابْنُ عُثْمَانَ بَعْدَ مَا تَعَاوَرَهَا مِنْهُ وَلِيدٌ وَ مَرْحَبٌ He said, ‘And regarding that Al-Kumeyt Bin Yazeed Al-Asady said a couplet in his -asws praise, ‘ He gulped down a portion of death, son of Usman, after having been coaxed from it, Waleed and Marhab ’.
وَ الْوَلِيدُ هُوَ ابْنُ عُتْبَةَ خَالُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ وَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ طَلْحَةَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ مَرْحَبٌ مِنَ الْيَهُود. And Al-Waleed, he is a son of Utba, maternal uncle of Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan and Usman Bin Talha from Quraysh (who was killed in the Battle of Ohad), and Marhab is from the Jews’’.
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