—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—their spoils among the Muslims.” Reported by Muslim (1).
[Section: The Rāfidī’s fifth argument—‘Alī’s foretelling of unseen matters, may Allah be pleased with him—and the response to him]
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The Rāfidī (2) said: “Fifth: His foretelling of unseen matters and events before they occurred. When Talhah and al-Zubayr sought his permission to leave for the lesser pilgrimage, he said (3): ‘No, by Allah! You do not intend (4) to perform the lesser pilgrimage; you only intend (5) to go to Basra, in (6) …’ And it was as he had said (7).
“While seated at Dhū Qār to receive pledges of allegiance, he announced: ‘From the direction of (8) Kūfah, a thousand men will come to you, neither more nor fewer, pledging allegiance to me (9) unto death.’ And so it happened; the last of them was Uways al-Qaranī.
“He foretold the killing of Dhū al-Thudayyah, and so it happened.
“Someone informed him that the people had crossed during the events (10) at Nahrawān, and he said: ‘They will not
(1) S, B: “Muslim—may Allah be pleased with him.” The extended version of this hadith, transmitted by Iyās ibn Salama from his father, Salama ibn al-Akwa‘—may Allah be pleased with him—is reported in Muslim, 3/1402 (Book of Jihad and Military Expeditions, chapter on the Battle of Hunayn). It is also reported in Sunan al-Dārimī, 2/219–220 (Book of Military Expeditions, chapter on the Prophet’s words—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—“May the faces be disfigured”); and al-Musnad (al-Halabī edition), 5/286.
(2) In K, pp. 186 (m)–188 (m).
(3) Qāla (“he said”) is absent from K.
(4) K: yurīdāni (“the two intend”).
(5) K: yurīdāni (“the two intend”).
(6) K: al-Basra (“Basra”), with al-ghadra (“treachery”) written above it and marked as a correction.
(7) N: “and if it was as the two had said”; M: “and if it was as he had said”; K: “and it was as he had said—peace be upon him.”
(8) Qibal (“the direction of”) is omitted from K.
(9) N, M, S, K: yubāyi‘ūnī (“they pledge allegiance to me”); the reading adopted is from B.
(10) K: qadiyya (“affair”).