Rifa’ah bin Shaddad says that once I went to Mukhtar, he placed a cushion for me and said,“If my brother Jibreel (Gabriel), peace be upon him, had not gotten up from this, I would have placed this cushion for you.”At that time, I was standing by Mukhtar’s head. When it became clear to me that he was a liar, by Allah, I intended to draw my sword and cut off his neck. But then I remembered a hadith which Sulaiman bin Surad, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated to me, that I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say:“Whoever grants safety to a Muslim regarding his life first, then he should not kill him.”Therefore, I did not consider it appropriate to kill him.