I have seen the two lips of Rasool-Allah -saww upon these...

I have seen the two lips of Rasool-Allah -saww upon these, kissing them, (the number of times) I cannot even count!’ ثُمَّ انْتَحَبَ بَاكِياً فَقَالَ لَهُ ابْنُ زِيَادٍ أَبْكَى اللَّهُ عَيْنَيْكَ أَ تَبْكِي لِفَتْحِ اللَّهِ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا أَنَّكَ شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ قَدْ خرقت [خَرِفْتَ‏] وَ ذَهَبَ عَقْلُكَ لَضَرَبْتُ عُنُقَكَ فَنَهَضَ زَيْدُ بْنُ أَرْقَمَ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَ صَارَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ‏ Then he wailed crying. Ibn Ziyad -la said to him, ‘May Allah -azwj Make your eyes cry!

Are you crying at the victory of Allah -azwj ? By Allah -azwj ! Had you not been an aged old man having become senile and his mind has gone, I -la would have struck off your neck!’ Zayd Bin Arqam got up from in front of him -la and went to his house’.

الإرشاد ص 228، و لكن قد يقال ان زيد بن أرقم كان حينذاك أعمى: قد كف بصره بدعاء على أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام حين استشهده عن كلام رسول اللّه« من كنت مولاه فهذا على مولاه» فكتمه، كما في شرح النهج ج 1 ص 362 لابن أبي الحديد، الا انه لم يثبت، و لا نقله أرباب التراجم في ترجمته.

📌Note: – (The book) ‘Al-Irshad’ Page 228, ‘But, it has been said that Zayd Bin Arqam was blind on that day, his sight having been blinded by the supplication of Ali -asws Amir Al-Momineen -asws against him when he -asws had told him to testify about the speech of Rasool-Allah -saww : ‘One whose Master I -saww was, so Ali -asws is his Master’, but he had concealed it, like what it is in the commentary of Al-Nahj Al-Balagah Vol 1 Pg 362 of Ibn Abu Al Hadeed, except that the lords of translation did not transmit it in their translations.

و لو صح لم يناف انكاره على ابن زياد بضرب القضيب على ثناياه عليه السلام، لجواز أن يكون قد أنكر على ما سمعه ممن رأى ذلك نعم قال ابن عساكر في تاريخه ج 4 ص 340 أنه كان حاضر المجلس و يؤيد ابن زياد. And if it was correct, it is not beneficial, his denial upon Ibn Ziyad -la of striking with the stick upon his -asws lips, upon him -asws be the greetings, as a permit that he had disliked it based upon what he had heard from the one who had seen that, yes.

Ibn Asakir said in his history, Vol 4 Pg 340 that he was present in the gathering and supported Ibn Ziyad -la .

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