Discours 443

443. When the news of the death of (Mālik) al-Ashtar (may Allāh have mercy on him), reached Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, he said:

Et il a dit (que la paix soit sur lui) : "Il a reçu la nouvelle de la mort d'Achtaar, que Dieu lui fasse miséricorde."

Mālik, what a man Mālik was! By Allāh, if he had been a mountain he would have been a big one (find), and if he had been a stone he would have been hard; no horseman could have reached it and no bird could have flown over it.