The great Faqih and the gifted orator, Shaikh Abul-Salah al-Halabi, may Allah have mercy on him, has said the following:

 

They harmed Ali (A.S.) because he did not go along with what they wanted him to do, and they were rough when they spoke to him and exaggerated in their threats to him. They brought firewood to burn his house and assault it with men without his permission. They brought him tied-up, thus forcing his wife, daughters, women and kinsfolk from Bani Hashim and others to go out of their homes. They surrounded him with their unsheathed swords and promised to kill him if he refused to swear fealty to them.^[1]