Talha and Zubayr

Nahj al-Balāgha|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 10

Nahj al-Balāgha

Book 1, Chapter 10

Talha and Zubayr
2 Aḥadīth
Ḥadīth 1

ومن خطبة له (عليه السلام) يريد الشيطان أويكني به عن قوم

Regarding the incitement of Satan: alluding to a particular group of people (about Ṭalḥah and az-Zubayr)

Ḥadīth 2

أَلاَ وإنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ قَدْ جَمَعَ حِزْبَهُ وَاسْتَجْلَبَ خَيْلَهُ وَرَجِلَهُ، وإِنَّ مَعِي لَبَصِيرَتي. مَا لَبَّسْتُ عَلَى نَفْسِي، وَلاَ لُبِّسَ عَلَيَّ. وَايْمُ اللهِ لاَفْرِطَنَّ لَهُمْ حَوْضاً أَنَا مَاتِحُهُ !لاَ يَصْدِرُونَ عَنْهُ، وَلاَ يَعُودُونَ إِلَيْهِ.

Beware! Satan [1] has collected his group and assembled his horse-men and foot-soldiers. Surely, with me is my sagacity. I have neither deceived myself nor ever been deceived. By Allāh I shall fill to the brim for them a cistern from which I alone would draw water. They can neither turn away from it nor return to it.