My companions came to me and said, ‘We see a thing from Ami Al-Momineen -asws , so have you seen it?’ I said, ‘And what is it?’ They said, ‘We see him -asws coming out to us in the severe heat in the thick stuffed coat and does not care of the heat, and he -asws comes out to us in the severe cold in two light clothes and does not care of the cold. Have you heard anything regarding that?’ I said, ‘No’.
فَقَالُوا فَسَلْ لَنَا أَبَاكَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَإِنَّهُ يَسْمُرُ مَعَهُ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ مَا سَمِعْتُ فِي ذَلِكَ شَيْئاً فَدَخَلَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَسَمَرَ مَعَهُ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ They said, ‘Ask your father about that for us, for he tend to chat in the evening with him -asws ’. So, I asked him and he said, ‘I have not heard anything regarding that’. He went to Ali -asws and held an evening chat with him -asws and asked him -asws about that.
فَقَالَ أَ وَ مَا شَهِدْتَ مَعَنَا خَيْبَرَ قُلْتُ بَلَى قَالَ أَ وَ مَا رَأَيْتَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص حِينَ دَعَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَعَقَدَ لَهُ ثُمَّ بَعَثَهُ إِلَى الْقَوْمِ فَانْطَلَقَ فَلَقِيَ الْقَوْمَ ثُمَّ جَاءَ بِالنَّاسِ وَ قَدْ هُزِمُوا فَقَالَ بَلَى He -asws said: ‘Or did you not witness Khyber with us?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He -asws said: ‘Or did you not see Rasool-Allah -saww when he -saww called Abu Bakr and equipped for him then sent him to the people.
He went and met the people (in battle), then came back with the people and he had been defeated?’ He said, ‘Yes’. قَالَ ثُمَّ بَعَثَ إِلَى عُمَرَ فَعَقَدَ لَهُ ثُمَّ بَعَثَهُ إِلَى الْقَوْمِ فَانْطَلَقَ فَلَقِيَ الْقَوْمَ فَقَاتَلَهُمْ ثُمَّ رَجَعَ وَ قَدْ هُزِمَ He -asws said: ‘Then he -saww sent to Umar and equipped for him, then sent him to the people. He went and met the people and fought them, then he returned and he had been defeated.
Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘Today I -saww will give the flag to a man who loves Allah -azwj and His -azwj Rasool -saww , and Allah -azwj and His -azwj Rasool -saww love him -asws . Allah -azwj will Grant victory upon his -asws hands, he -asws being an attacker not a fleer’. So he -saww called me -asws and gave me -asws the flag, then said: ‘O Allah -azwj ! Suffice him -asws of the heat and the cold’.