Musnad Abi Ya'la 480 — he said: I was present with Sayyiduna Ali when

It is narrated from Abu al-Wadi' (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: I was present with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) when the people of al-Nahrawan (the Khawarij) were killed, and he (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Search for the deformed man." The narrator said: The people searched for him among the slain but did not find him, so they said: "We cannot find him." At this Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Go back and search for him (again); by Allah, I have not lied, nor have I been told a lie." So they went back and searched for him, and he (may Allah be pleased with him) kept repeating the same words again and again: "I have not lied, nor have I been told a lie." At last they went and found him pressed into the mud beneath the slain. He was pulled out from there and brought to him (may Allah be pleased with him). Abu al-Wadi' (may Allah have mercy on him) said: It is as if I can still see him: he was an Abyssinian wearing a tunic, and one of his hands was like a woman's breast (a lump of flesh), with a few hairs on it like the hairs on the tail of a jerboa (desert rat).