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Alternative sources for this sermon
(see Bibliography for details of these texts)
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(1) Ibn `Abd Rabbih, al-`Iqd, IV;
(2) Ibn al-'Athir, al-Nihayah, II, 128 (d.k.k); (3) Abu Mikhnaf, al-Jamal, see Ibn Abi al-Hadid, I, 340; (4) also the sources mentioned under Sermon:26. |
They leapt upon me as the camels leap upon each other on their arrival for drinking water, having been let loose after unfastening of their four legs till I thought they would either kill me or kill one another in front of me. I thought over this matter in and out to the extent that it prevented me from sleeping. But I found no way except to fight them or else to reject whatever has been brought by Muhammad (PBUHAHP). I found that to face war was easier for me than to face the retribution, and the hardships of this world were easier than the hardships of the next world.
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