He said: Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Umar al-Je'abi reported to me from Abul Abbas Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Saeed al-Hamdani, who reported from Abu Awanah Musa b. Yusuf b. Rashid, who reported from Abd al-Salaam b. Asim, who reported from Ishaq b. Ismail Hamwayh, who reported from Amru b. Abu Qais, from Maysarah b. Habib, from al-Minhal b. Amru, who said:
A man from Banu Tamim reported to me that we were with AMIRUL MO'MINEEN (ASWS), peace be upon him, at Dhu Qar, and we thought we were to be seized on that day. Then I heard him say: "By ALLAH (SWT)! We will overcome this dissenting group. And these two, talha (LA) and zubair (LA), will be killed and their troops will be uprooted."
Al-Tameem said: I went to Abdullah b. al-Abbas and said to him: "Do you hear what your cousin says?" He said: "Do not make haste, wait till we see what happens." When the result of Basrah battle became known, I came to him and said: "Your cousin was right in what he said."
He said: "We the companions of the PROPHET MOHAMMAD (SAWW) , peace be upon him and his progeny, used to say that he has given him (i.e. ALI) eighty pledges exclusively. Perhaps this was one of them."
(Ref : Al Amali Shaikh Mufeed The Thirty Ninth Assembly Hadees No.5)