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217

SERMON 217

When Amir al-mu'minin
passed by the corpses of Talhah ibn Ubaydullah and Abd
ar-Rahman ibn Attab ibn Asid who were both killed in the
battle of Jamal, he said:

Abu Muhammad (Talhah)
lies here away from his own place. By Allah, I did not like that
the Quraysh should lie killed under the stars. I have avenged
myself with the descendants of Abd Manaf, but the chief persons
of Banu Jumah (1) have escaped me.
They had stretched their necks towards a matter for which they
were not suited, and therefore their necks were broken before they
reached the goal.

(1).
In the battle of Jamal a group of Banu Jumah was with A'ishah,
butthe chief men of this group fled away from the battle-field.
Some of them were: Abdullah at-Tawil ibn Safwan, Yahya ibn Hakim,
Amir ibn Masud and Ayyub ibn Habib. From this group (Banu Jumah)
only two persons were killed.