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Hussain asked him scoldingly, "You, did you join the fight on Mu'aawiyah's side?" `Abd Allah said,
"One day `Amr Ibn Al-'Aas complained to the Prophet (PBUH) saying, "Abd Allah fasts the whole day
and prays all night.' Then the Prophet said to me, `O Abd Allah, pray and sleep, fast and eat. Obey you
father.' When it was the day of As-siffiin, my father swore by Allah that I had to go out with him. I went
out, but, by Allah, I didn't pierce with a lance, I didn't fight with a sword and I didn't shoot any arrows.
At the age of 72, while praying in his mosque, asking for Allah's forgiveness, praising Allah
gratefully, he was invited to join the eternal voyage. Filled with a longing aspiration he responded. His
soul left the world joyfully to join his brethren who had preceded him. The announcer of good news
proclaimed from Heaven,
"O soul at peace, return to your Lord, well pleased and well pleasing. Enter you among My servants, and
enter into My Paradise!" (89:27- 30).