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Alternative sources for this sermon
(see Bibliography for details of these texts)
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(1) Ibn Sa`d, al-Tabaqat, III, 36;
(2) Abu al-Faraj, Maqatil, 16; (3) Ibn `Abd Rabbih, al-`Iqd, II, 298; (4) al-Qali, Dhayl al-'Amali, 190; (5) Ibn Qutaybah, al-'Imamah, I, 160; (6) Muhammad ibn Habib, al-Mughtalin, on the authority of Abu `Abd al-Rahman al-Salami; (7) Ibn `Abd al-Birr, al-'Isti`ab, III, 61; (8) al-Mufid, al-'Irshad, 9; (9) al-Murtada, Ghurar, IV, 78; (10) al-Baladhuri, Ansab, II, 495. |
Spoken on the morning of the day when Amir al-mu'minin was fatally struck with sword.
I was sitting when sleep overtook me. I saw the Prophet of Allah appear before me, and I said: "O' Prophet of Allah ! what crookedness and enmity I had to face from the people. " The prophet of Allah said: "Invoke (Allah) evil upon them," but I said, "Allah may change them for me with better ones and change me for them with a worse one.as-Sayyid ar-Radi says: "al-awad" means crookedness and "al-ladad" means enmity, and this is the most eloquent expression.
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