Imam Ali is Merciful even to His Assassin: Mercy and kindness are our traits and not his. I want you to feed him from your food and give him a drink from your water. Don’t tie his hands or his feet. And if I die then execute a just judgment by killing him with one blow only. And don’t mutilate his body for I heard your grandfather say; Do not mutilate even with the body of a rabid dog. And if I live, then I would know what to do with him, and I am rather entitled to pardon him.