\n So Amir-ul-Momineen -asws said to him...

\n So Amir-ul-Momineen -asws said to him: \u2018My -asws cousin -saww has made it known to me -asws that if you were to kill me -asws , I -asws would enter the Paradise and you would be in the Fire, and if I -asws were to kill you, so you would be in the Fire and I -asws would be in the Paradise\u2019. \n Amro said: \u2018Both of the good outcomes are for you -asws , O Ali -asws , this is an unfair division\u2019.

So Ali -asws said: \u2018Leave this, O Amro, and I -asws heard from you, and you were sticking to the curtains of the Kaaba and you were saying, \u2018No one presents himself to me in the war\u2019, (and you mentioned) three qualities. I -asws have answered one of these, and I -asws hereby present to you three qualities, so answer me -asws one of these\u2019. He said, \u2018Give, O Ali -asws !

He -asws said: \u2018Testify that there is no god except for Allah -azwj , and that Muhammad -saww is Rasool-Allah -saww \u2019. He said, \u2018Leave me from this\u2019. He -asws said: \u2018As for the second one, it is that you should return this army (back) from Rasool-Allah -saww . So if he -saww is truthful, so you all are closer to him -saww and can see him -saww , and if he -saww is a liar, the wolves of the Arabs would suffice for his -saww matter\u2019.

He said, \u2018Then the women of Quraysh would narrate of that, and seek the poets and (construct) poems in their poetry that I was scared and turned back upon my heels from the war and abandoned a people who had appointed me as their chief\u2019. \n Amir-ul-Momineen -asws said to him: \u2018So the third (option) is that you should come down to me -asws , for you are riding and I -asws am on foot, until I -asws strike your horse and cut it down\u2019.

He said, \u2018This is a quality which no one from the Arabs has afflicted me with\u2019. Then they began (to duel). So he struck Amir-ul-Momineen -asws with the sword upon his -asws head, and he -asws avoided it with the skull cap, and it broke, and the sword hit him upon his head\u2019. So Ali -asws said to him: \u2018O Amro!

Does it suffice for you that I -asws duelled with you, and you are an Arab Knight, until you seek help against me -asws , with those at the back?\u2019 So Amro turned to his back, and Amir-ul-Momineen -asws quickly struck at the legs (of his horse) and cut them off completely, and the dust arose between them. \n The hypocrites said, \u2018Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws has been killed\u2019.