It is narrated from Masruq that Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "I saw myself in a dream on a hill, with cows being slaughtered around me." I said to her: "If your dream is true, there will be a bloody battle around you." She said: "I seek refuge with Allah from your evil! What an evil thing you have said!" I said to her: "Perhaps, if such a matter did happen, they would show you regard and respect?" She said: "By Allah! Falling from the sky is more beloved to me than doing that." Later, when it was mentioned in her presence that Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) had killed Dhu al-Thudayyah (the Kharijite), she said to me: "When you go to Kufah, write down for me the names of people who witnessed that event, from among the people of the city whom you know." When I arrived there, I found the people divided into various factions, so I wrote down from each faction ten people who had witnessed it. Masruq said: I came to her with their testimonies, and she said: "May Allah Almighty curse Amr bin al-As, for he claimed to me that he had killed him in Egypt." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.