'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.' [‎404] (565/612)

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the top of the head, and he died two days after. According to
the Maurid-el-Laid/ah, the accounts vary as to whether he
struck him at prayers or before he commenced them, and
whether he appointed another person to finish the prayers
or finished them himself. The majority state that Ja'adah-
hin-Hubairatah prayed with the people [acted as Imam] in
those particular prayers. It is related that when Ibn-Muljam
struck him, 'Aly gave his two sons, el-Hasan and el-Husein,
a long injunction, and at the conclusion of it said, ' Do not kill
any person on my account except him who killed me, and see that,
if I die from this blow, you strike him blow for blow; but do not
mutilate him [to serve as an example], for verily I heard the
Prophet of God say, (may God grant him grace and salvation !),
beware of mutilating, even a mad dog.' This is on the authority
of el-Fadha,ily. According to Maula-el-Fadhl, when Ibn-Muljam
killed 'Aly, the latter said to el-Hasan and el-Husein (may
God approve of them !) ' Have you imprisoned the man ?'
They replied ' Yes then he said, ' If I die, kill him, but do not
mutilate [or torture] him.' After 'Aly died, el-Husein and Mu-
hammad-ibn-Hanafiyyah [a son of 'Aly by a wife of the el-Hana-
■fiyyah tribe] set upon him in order to cut him to pieces, when
el-Hasan forbade it. This is on the authority of ed-Dhah-hak.
According to the Ilciijut-el-lldtu'du, el-Husein the son of Aly
(may God, etc.,) killed 'Abd-er-Rahman ibn-Muljam, and the
people assembled and burnt his body. It is also related from
'Amr-dzy-Murr, [one of the Companions of the Prophet], who
says, ' After 'Aly was struck, I went in to him, and his head was
bound up. I said, 0 Prince of the Faithful, show me your wound.
When he disclosed it, I said. It is a mere scratch, and nothing.
He replied. Verily, I am about to be separated from you! I
am about to be separated from you! Then Uinm-Kalthum
wept from behind the curtain, 1 and he said to her, be quiet; if
varies from eighteen to thirty inches; the line of the cutting edge is
slightly concave for about two-thirds of its length, and then becomes
recurved, that is, slightly convex, to the point.
1 The curtain which hangs before the door of the women's apartment.
It is not uncommon for a woman, if the occasion requires it—perhaps
sometimes when it does not—to talk from behind it. I once took down
the evidence of a Turkish lady, high in rank, in that way.