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576. Muhammad Bin Yahya, and Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad, together from Ja’far Bin Muhammad, from Abbad Bin Yaqoub, from Ahmad Bin Ismail, from Amro Bin Kaysan, from Abu Abdullah Al-Ju’fy who said: ‘Abu Ja’far Muhammad Bin Ali عليه الصلاة والسلام said to me: ‘How many Rabaat (guards) are there in your presence?’ I said, ‘Forty’. He عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘But our عليه الصلاة والسلام guards are eternal guards. The ones who is a guard amongst us who looks after an animal, there will be for him its weight, and the weight of its (animal) weight so long as it was with him. And the one who is a guard amongst us with weapon would have its weight so long as it was with him. Do not grieve from once, or twice, or three times, or four, for our example and your example is like the example of the Prophet عليه السلام who was in the Children of Israel. So Allah عز وجل Mighty and Majestic Revealed to him عليه السلام: “If you عليه السلام prepare your عليه السلام people for the fighting, I عز وجل will Help you عليه السلام’. So he عليه السلام gathered them from the top of the mountains and from other places (other) than that. Then he عليه السلام directed them for it. So they neither struck with their swords, nor did they stab with their spears until they were defeated. Then Allah عز وجل Revealed to him: “If you عليه السلام prepare your عليه السلام people for the fighting, I عز وجل will Help you عليه السلام”. So he عليه السلام called them. They said, ‘You promised us the Help, but no Help came to us’. So Allah عز وجل the High Revealed to him عليه السلام: “But, they can either choose to fight or the Fire’. So he عليه السلام said: ‘O Lord عز وجل! The fighting is more beloved to me عليه السلام than the Fire’. So he عليه السلام called upon them, and three hundred and thirteen of them answered him عليه السلام, the same number of the people of Badr. So he عليه السلام directed them (for the battle). They neither struck with their swords, nor stabbed with their spears, until Allah عز وجل Mighty and Majestic granted victory to them’.