Nahj al-Balāgha

Hadith 1236
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ومن وصية له (عليه السلام) لمعقل بن قيس الرياحي حين أنفذه إلى الشام في ثلاثة آلاف مقدّمةً له
Instructions given to Ma‘qil ibn Qays ar-Riyāḥī when he was dispatched to Syria at the head of a vanguard contingent three thousand strong.
Source: al-Sharīf al-Raḍī

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