Ahnaf bin Qais reported: I set out with the intention of helping this person (Hadrat 'Ali) that Abu Bakr (RA) met me. He said: Ahnaf, where do you intend to go? I said: I intend to help the cousin of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) , viz. 'Ali. Thereupon he said to me: Ahnaf, go back, for I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: When two Muslims confront one another with swords (in hands) both the slayer and the slain would be in Fire. He (Ahnaf) said: I said, or it was said: Allah's Messenger, it may be the case of one who kills. but what about the slain (why would he be put in Hell-Fire)? Thereupon he said: He also intended to kill his companion.