What happened between them on the day of Siffin

Amir al-Sha'bi narrates: When Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) set out for Siffin, he appointed Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) as his deputy over Kufa. Some people of Kufa had been hiding from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him); when Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) left, those people came out into the open. They began coming to Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) and saying: By Allah! Allah Almighty has destroyed his enemies and given victory to the believers. Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: By Allah! I do not count it as a victory; there is no well-being in one of these two groups prevailing over the other. The people said: Then what is it? He said: There should be reconciliation between the people. When Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) returned, the people mentioned this to him, and Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Step down from our office! He asked: Why is that? Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We have found that you have no sense. He said: As for me, according to the sense that remains with me and what I know, the other outcome is worse.
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains a narrator, Mujalid bin Sa'id, whom al-Nasa'i (may Allah have mercy on him) declared thiqah (trustworthy) and a group declared da'if (weak); the remaining narrators of this narration are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took a covenant from me that I would fight the "Nakithin" (the covenant-breakers), the Qasitin (those who deviate from justice) and the "Mariqin" (those who go out of the religion).

In one narration the words are: "I have been commanded to fight the 'Nakithin' (the covenant-breakers)." After this the narrator mentioned the hadith as before.
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; the narrators of one of al-Bazzar's two chains are the narrators of the Sahih, except al-Rabi' bin Sa'id, and Ibn Hibban declared him thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was commanded to fight the "Nakithin" (the covenant-breakers), the "Qasitin" (those who deviate from justice) and the "Mariqin" (those who go out of the religion).
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains a narrator, Muslim bin Kaysan al-Mula'i, and he is da'if (weak).

Abu Sa'id Uqaysa' narrates: I heard Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) say, at the time when we were heading for Siffin: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) has commanded me to fight the "Nakithin" (the covenant-breakers), the "Qasitin" (those who deviate from justice) and the "Mariqin" (those who go out of the religion).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and the narrator Abu Sa'id is matruk (abandoned).
Abu Ya'la recorded it with a da'if (weak) chain.

Qays bin Abi Hazim narrates: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Set out towards the remaining armies (of the Confederates)! Set out with us towards what Allah Almighty and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) have said. We say: Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth, and they say: Allah and His Messenger have spoken falsely.
Al-Bazzar recorded it with two chains; one chain contains a narrator, Yunus bin Arqam, and he is layyin (somewhat weak), while the other chain contains a narrator, al-Sayyid bin Isa, about whom al-Azdi said: He is not of that standard; the remaining narrators of both chains are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: One day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to the mother of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him); she was a woman who used to treat the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with great kindness. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: O Umm Abdullah! How are you? She submitted: O Messenger of Allah! I am well, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you; how are you? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I am well. She submitted: Abdullah is a man who has detached himself from the world. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: How so? The lady said: He has made sleep unlawful for himself, so he does not sleep; he does not leave off voluntary fasting, he does not eat meat, and he does not give his wife her right. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: Where is he? The lady said: He has gone out; he will come shortly. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When he comes back, keep him here. The lady narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) left, then Abdullah came, and shortly afterwards the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also returned. He said: O Abdullah bin Amr! What is this that has reached me about you? He submitted: O Messenger of Allah! What is it? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It has reached me that you do not sleep and do not leave off any voluntary fast. He submitted: By this I intended to remain safe from alarm on the Day of the Great Alarm. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It has reached me that you do not eat meat. He submitted: By this I intended (to attain) food that will be better than it and that will be given in Paradise. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It has reached me that you do not give your family their right. He submitted: By this I intended to attain women who will be better than them and who will be given in Paradise. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Abdullah bin Amr! For you there is the best example in the way of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah keeps voluntary fasts and also leaves them; he sleeps (at night) and also offers voluntary prayers; he eats meat, and he gives his family their right. O Abdullah! Indeed Allah Almighty has a right over you, your body has a right over you, and your wife has a right over you." He submitted: O Messenger of Allah! Permit me to keep voluntary fasts for five days and leave off one day. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No! He submitted: Should I fast four days and leave off one day? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No! He submitted: Should I fast three days and leave off one day? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No! He submitted: Should I fast two days and leave off one day? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No! He submitted: Then should I keep a voluntary fast one day and leave it the next? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: That is the way of fasting of my brother, Sayyiduna Dawud (peace be upon him). O Abdullah bin Amr! What will your state be when you remain among the dregs (or the worst) of people, whose covenants and pledges will have come to nothing, and they will become like this? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this while interlacing his fingers in opposite directions. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) submitted: Then what do you command me? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Adopt what you recognise as good and leave what you recognise as evil; act only for your own self, and leave the people and their general affairs (to themselves)." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took his hand, walked along with him, placed his hand in the hand of his father, and said: "Obey your father." The narrator narrates: When the time of the Battle of Siffin came, his father said to him: O Abdullah! Go out and fight. He submitted: O dear father! Are you commanding me to go out and fight, when you heard what you heard on the day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave me the instruction he gave? Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I ask you by Allah, O Abdullah bin Amr: was not the last instruction the Messenger of Allah gave you this, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took your hand, gave it into my hand and then said: "Obey your father"? Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) submitted: Yes. Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Then I insist that you go out and take part in the fighting. So he went out with a sword hanging from his neck. When the fighting began, Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) recited these verses: "The war has flared up, and I have prepared for it: I have girded up my resolve and strengthened my back; I have joined one binding to another; when the rope leaps from the binding, it becomes swift; the great camel's body is full, and when it is drenched with water, it looks with a hot (i.e. angry) glance." Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) recited these verses: "If a camel were one day to experience (the state of) my standing and presence at Siffin, its hair would turn white; that evening when the people of Iraq came, as if they were spring clouds raised by the southern winds; and we came to them as if thrown down, and our ranks were like the waves of the sea riding upon one another in ebb and flow; when I thought that they would swiftly turn their backs, their squadrons appeared before us, squadrons moving with zeal; all day long our millstone turned and their millstone turned too, and the shoulders did not turn away; they said to us: We think that you should give allegiance to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him); and we said: We do not think that you should fight." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Part of the beginning of this narration is mentioned in the "Sahih".
Al-Tabarani recorded it through the narration of Abd al-Malik bin Qudamah al-Jumahi from Amr bin Shu'ayb; the narrator Abd al-Malik was declared thiqah (trustworthy) by Yahya bin Ma'in and others, while Abu Hatim and others declared him da'if (weak).

Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami narrates: We were present with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) at the Battle of Siffin. We had appointed two men to look after his horse. When Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) saw a little negligence on the part of these men, he mounted his horse and went into the enemy army; when he came back, there was blood on his sword. He said: O my companions! Hold me excused, hold me excused. Whenever we made a truce, the people of this side would go into the camp of the other side. Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) was a sign for the Companions of Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him); whichever valley of Siffin Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) took, the Companions of Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) would follow him. The narrator says: We came to Hashim bin Utbah bin Abi Waqqas, who had set up the banner. He said: O Hashim! What is the matter with you? Are you one-eyed or cowardly? There is no good in a one-eyed man who cannot charge at the people. So Hashim pulled out the banner and recited these verses: "A one-eyed man seeks a way for his wife; he lives life in such a way that he grows weary; so it is necessary that he should break the fury, or be broken himself." Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: Come forward! For Paradise is beneath the shade of the swords, and the wide-eyed houris have adorned themselves, who are with Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and his companions in the Highest Company. The narrator says: Then both of them were martyred before they came back. Whenever we made a truce, the people of this side would go into the camp of the other side, and the people of that side into the camp of this side. (On one such occasion) I looked and saw four men riding along: Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyiduna Abu al-A'war al-Sulami (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) and his son (Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him)). I thought to myself: If I go along on the right side, I will not be able to hear what they say. So I spurred my horse and came in between them, so that two of them were on my right and two on my left. I listened attentively to what Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Abu al-A'war (may Allah be pleased with him) were saying, and I also listened attentively to what Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) and his son Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) were saying. I heard Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) say to his father: O father! We have martyred this man (i.e. Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him)), while the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said a particular thing about him. He asked: Which man? Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him). Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), when the mosque was being built and we were carrying one brick at a time while Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) was carrying two bricks at a time, and you were in a state of hesitation (i.e. at that time you had not accepted Islam), when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said (to Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him)): "Soon a rebellious group will kill you, and you will be among the people of Paradise"? Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Be quiet! By Allah! You are talking nonsense. Did we kill him? He was killed by those who brought him and threw him between our spears. The narrator says: Then it was proclaimed throughout the army of Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed by the one who brought him (to the battlefield).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and Ahmad recorded it in abridged form; Abu Ya'la recorded it similarly to al-Tabarani, and al-Bazzar recorded only these words of the narration: "A rebellious group will kill Ammar", from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) alone. The narrators of Ahmad and Abu Ya'la are thiqat (trustworthy).

Muhammad bin Amr bin Hazm narrates: When Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred, Sayyiduna Amr bin Hazm (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) has been martyred, while the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A rebellious group will kill him." Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) stood up in distress and went to Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him: What has happened? He said that Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) had been martyred. Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) has been martyred; so what? Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "A rebellious group will kill him." Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: You are saying something wrong. Did we kill him? Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and his companions caused him to be killed; they brought him (to the battlefield), until they threw him between our spears (the narrator is in doubt; perhaps the words are:) between our swords.
Ahmad, Abu Ya'la and al-Tabarani recorded it, and the narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih except Muhammad bin Amr, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Muhammad bin Umarah bin Khuzaymah bin Thabit narrates: My grandfather kept holding back his weapons (that is, he took no part in the fighting) until Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred at Siffin; then my grandfather drew his sword and fought until he was martyred. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The rebellious group will kill him."
Ahmad and al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Abu Ma'shar, who is weak (layyin).

It is reported about Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) that he gave some people gifts and gave Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) something extra. He was asked about this, and he said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The rebellious group will kill him."
Ahmad recorded it; its chain contains a narrator who is not named, and the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Abu Ya'la recorded it in abridged form, leaving out the story of the gift.

Zayd bin Wahb narrates: Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) fell into a quarrel with some people of Quraysh. They came to him and beat him. Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) came out with a staff in his hand, climbed the pulpit, praised and glorified Allah Almighty, and then said: "O people! What have I to do with Quraysh? May Allah Almighty do such-and-such to Quraysh and such-and-such." These people went to a man and beat him, a man about whom I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say, addressing Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him): "The rebellious group will kill you."
Abu Ya'la recorded it, and al-Tabarani in the three (Mu'jams) with the story abridged; its chain contains Ahmad bin Budayl al-Ramli, whom al-Nasa'i (may Allah have mercy on him) and others declared thiqah (trustworthy), and there is some weakness in him.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was having the mosque built, and Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) was carrying two stones. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Woe to the son of Sumayyah! The rebellious group will kill him."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and Abu Ya'la also recorded it; Abu Ya'la's chain is munqati' (disconnected), and al-Tabarani's chain contains Ahmad bin Umar al-Allaf al-Razi, whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) says: I do not feel as much regret over anything as I feel over this: why did I not fight the rebellious group together with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)?
Al-Tabarani recorded it with several chains, one of which has narrators who are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) struck my side with his blessed hand and said: "This is a believing side. The rebellious group will kill you, and your last provision will be milk mixed with water."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, and in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat in abridged form; all of its chains contain weakness. (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Many hadiths of this kind will come later in the chapter on the virtues of Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him), if Allah wills.

Abdullah bin Salamah narrates: On the day of Siffin I saw Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him). He was a very old man, of wheatish complexion and tall. He was holding a spear in his hand, and his hand was trembling. He said: By the One in whose hand my soul is, I have fought under this banner alongside the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in three battles, and this is the fourth. By the One in whose hand my soul is, even if they were to strike at us until they drove us to the uplands of Hajar, I would still know that we are in the right and that they are in misguidance.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. The narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih, except Abdullah bin Salamah, and he is thiqah (trustworthy). However, al-Tabarani's wording is: "I fought the owner of this (banner) alongside the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) three times, and this is the fourth."

Abdullah bin Salamah narrates: It was said to Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him): Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) has withdrawn. He said: By Allah, his army will surely be disgraced; he has fled from the effort and has broken his covenant. By Allah, my view about the enemy is this: even if they were to strike you a blow that would throw the people of falsehood into doubt, and were to fight us until they drove us to the uplands of Hajar, we would know that our companions are in the right and they are upon falsehood.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyar Abu al-Hakam narrates: The Banu Abs said to Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him): The Commander of the Believers, Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), has been martyred; so what do you instruct us? He said: I instruct you to stay with Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him). The people said: But Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) never separates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Envy destroys the body. You are turning away from Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) only because he is close to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). By Allah, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) surpasses Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) in virtue by more than the distance between the dust (that is, the earth) and the clouds, and Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) is one of the righteous. The narrator says: Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) knew that if they joined Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him), they would be with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), except that I do not know the unnamed man.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When people differ, the son of Sumayyah will be with the truth." The narrator says: By the son of Sumayyah is meant Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him).
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Dirar bin Surad, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I enjoin them concerning Ammar. He will call them to Paradise, and they will call him to the Fire."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Abd al-Nur bin Abdullah, who is da'if (weak), and Ibn Hibban declared him thiqah (trustworthy).

Abu al-Bakhtari narrates: On the day of Siffin, Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Bring me milk, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The last thing you will drink in this world will be milk." Milk was brought to him and he drank it; then he advanced and was martyred.
Ahmad and al-Tabarani recorded it. Al-Tabarani's wording states that it was Abu al-Mukhariq who gave him the milk to drink, and adds: Then he looked at the banner of Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: I fought against the owner of this banner alongside the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The narrators of Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih, except that it is munqati' (disconnected).

Kulthum bin Jabr narrates: We were at Wasit al-Qasab with Abd al-A'la bin Abdullah bin Amir. There was a man with him called Abu Ghadiyah. He asked for something to drink, and water was brought to him in a vessel plated with silver, but he refused to drink from it. He mentioned the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and narrated this hadith from him, that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not become disbelievers (the narrator is in doubt, and the words may be:) misguided after me, striking one another's necks." That man said: A man was reviling so-and-so, and I said: By Allah, if Allah Almighty ever gives me power over you during a battle, then you will see. Then came the battle of Siffin, and that man came before me wearing armour. I saw an opening in the armour, so I thrust my spear there and killed him, and that man was Ammar bin Yasir. The narrator says: I said: What a strange man this is! He considers it disliked to drink from a vessel plated with silver, yet he martyred Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him).
Abdullah recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih. Al-Tabarani recorded something similar in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and he also recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir in a more complete form; it will come later in the chapter on the virtue of Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him).

Hanzalah bin Khuwaylid al-Anbari narrates: Once I was with Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) when two men came to him disputing over the head of Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him), each of them saying: I killed him. Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Let one of you give it up to his companion, for I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The rebellious group will kill him." Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Then why are you with us? Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: My father complained about me to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Obey your father as long as he lives, and do not disobey him." So I have come along with you, but I have not taken part in the fighting.
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Abu Ghadiyah narrates: Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed, and Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) was informed of it. Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The one who kills him (that is, Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir, may Allah be pleased with him) and the one who strips his belongings will be in the Fire." It was said to Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him): But you yourself were fighting against him! He said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this only about Ammar's killer and the one who strips his belongings.
Ahmad recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded something similar, but his wording is: It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) that two men came to Sayyiduna Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) disputing over the killing of Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) and his belongings. He (Sayyiduna Amr) said: Leave him alone, for I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The killer of Ammar and the one who strips his belongings will be in the Fire." The narrators of Ahmad are thiqat (trustworthy).

Qays bin Abbad narrates: We were with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). Whenever he took part in a battle, or climbed a hill, or descended into a valley, he would say: Subhan Allah! Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth. The narrator says: I said to a man from the Banu Yashkur: Come with us to the Commander of the Believers so that we may ask him about his saying: Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth. The narrator says: We went to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: O Commander of the Believers! We have seen that whenever you take part in a battle, or descend into a low place, or climb a hill, you say: Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth. Did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) give you some special instruction about this? The narrator says: He turned away from us, and we pressed our request upon him. When he saw this, he said: "By Allah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not give me any special instruction, except the same things he (peace and blessings be upon him) enjoined upon the people. But when the people turned against Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) and martyred Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), others besides me were worse in their state and in their conduct. Then I saw that I had more right to the rule than all of them, so I took up the rule. Now Allah knows best whether I did right or wrong."
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except Ali bin Zayd, who has a poor memory; his hadith has been graded hasan.

Umayr bin Zudi narrates: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed the people, and they interrupted his sermon. He said: I became weak on the day Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred. Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) set forth a parable for the people: It is like three bulls and a lion that are together in one area. One bull is black, one is red and one is white. Whenever the lion means to attack any one of them, they gather together and hold it off. So the lion says to the black and the red bull: In this area of ours, this white bull is bringing disgrace upon us; so give me the chance to eat it. Your colour is like mine, and my colour is like yours. Then the lion attacks it and eats it. A little later it says to the black bull: In this area of ours, this red bull is bringing disgrace upon us; give me the chance to eat it, for my colour and yours are alike, and your colour and mine are alike. Then it attacks that bull and eats it too. Then it says to the black bull: Now I will eat you. The black bull says: Give me the chance to call out something three times in a loud voice. Then the bull says: I was eaten on the very day the white bull was eaten. Beware! I was eaten on the very day the white bull was eaten. Beware! I was eaten on the very day the white bull was eaten. (Then Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, said:) Beware! I became weak on the very day Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. I do not know the narrator named Umayr; the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except Mujalid bin Sa'id, about whom there is disagreement.