Nisai traveled to
Damascus in the last years of his life. He thought that Ali was abused, so he wrote the Khasa'is Ali, to tell people of the virtues of Ali ibn Abi Talib and his standing with Muhammad. This angered the 'Nasibis' (the term used for the people dislike Ali), who asked him to write a similar book about the virtues of
Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan. He refused, saying that there are no virtues reported about him (and this is the consensus among the
scholars of hadith). But the Nasibis said that there are narrations, so he said "Only if you mean the Hadith "May Allah not fill his belly!" a hadith in which Muhammad cursed Muawiyah (a few Sunni scholars interpret this hadith as a blessing). This angered the Nasibis, so they beat him unconscious. He was transferred to Mecca, where he died reportedly because of the injuries of beatings. ==Content==