Miracle 68: Predicting the Deceit of Talha and Zubayr
(The book) ‘Musnad Al Ashra’ – From Ahmad Bin Hanbal, ‘Abu Al Wazie Giyas said,
‘We were returning to Kufa with Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.). When we had reached a travel distance of two or three nights from Haroura, a lot of people deviated away from us. We mentioned that to Ameerul Momineen (a.s.). He (a.s.) said: ‘Do not let their affair terrify you, for they will be returning’. It happened like what he (a.s.) had said.
And he (a.s.) said to Talha and Al-Zubair, and they had come to seek permission regarding the going out to perform the Umrah: ‘By Allah! You are not intending the Umrah, and rather you are intending Basra!’.1 And he (a.s.) said: ‘They had both entered with an aspect of mischief and went out with an aspect of betrayal, and I would not have cast them except in a battalion, and now it is more appropriate for them that they are killed’’.
And in a report of Abu Al Haysam Bin Al Tayham, and Abdullah Bin Abu Rafie, Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) said,
‘And I am informed with your affair and I have seen your killing places’.2