Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32695 — Reports on talk about rulers

Abu al-Juwayriyah al-Jarmi said: I was among those who were going towards Syria on the day of the battle of al-Khazir. We met them in battle, and a strong wind blew on the camp of the opposing side, and they took to flight. So we kept killing them all night until morning. Ibrahim bin al-Ashtar said: "Last night I killed a man from whom a strong fragrance was coming, and I think that man must be Ibn Marjanah. I killed him in such a way that his two feet fell to the east and his head to the west," or "his head fell to the east and his feet to the west." He said: I went and looked, and by Allah, that man was Ibn Marjanah.