{"id":46,"date":"2019-09-04T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-14T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T09:43:55","slug":"some-traditions-on-the-virtues-of-imam-ali-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/46\/some-traditions-on-the-virtues-of-imam-ali-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Traditions on the Virtues of Imam Ali (AS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is narrated that:<\/strong>
\nThe Messenger of Allah (PBUH&HF) said: “He who wants to see Noah (AS) in his determination, Adam (AS) in his knowledge, Abraham (AS) in his clemency, Moses (AS) in his intelligence and Jesus (AS) in his religious devotion should look at Ali Ibn Abi Talib (AS).”
\nSunni references:<\/strong>
\nSahih al-Bayhaqi
\nMusnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, as quoted in
\nSharh Ibn Abil Hadid, v2, p449
\nTafsir al-Kabir, by Fakhruddin al-Razi, under the commentary of the Verse of Imprecation (Mubahilah), v2 p288. He wrote this tradition has been accepted as all genuine.
\nIbn Batah has recorded it as a tradition related by Ibn Abbas as is stated in the book “Fat\\’h al-Mulk al-Ali bi Sihah Hadith-e-Bab-e-Madinat al-Ilm”, p34, by Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Siddeeq al-Hasani al-Maghribi.
\nAmong those who have admitted that Imam Ali (AS) is the store house of the secrets of all the Prophets is the Chief of Gnostics, Muhyiddin al-Arabi, from whom al-Arif al-Sha\\’rani has copied it in his al-Yawaqeet wa al-Jawahir (p172, topic 32).
\nIt is also narrated that:
\nThe Prophet (PBUH&HF) said: “There is amongst you a person who will fight for the interpretation of the Quran just as I fought for its revelation.” The people around him raised their heads and cast inquisitive glances at the Prophet (PBUH&HF) and at one another. Abu Bakr and Umar were there. Abu Bakr inquired if he was that person and the Prophet (PBUH&HF) replied in the negative. Then Umar inquired if he was that person and the Prophet (PBUH&HF), replied “No. He is the one who is repairing my shoes (i.e., Ali).”
\nAbu Said Khudri said: Then we went to Ali and conveyed the good news to him. He did not even raise his head and remained as busy as he was, as if he had already heard it from the Messenger of Allah (PBUH&HF).”
\nSunni references:<\/strong>
\nal-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p122, who said this tradition is genuine based on the criteria of al-Bukhari and Muslim.
\nal-Dhahabi, also records it in his Talkhis al-Mustadrak and admitted that it is genuine according to the standard of the two Shaikhs.
\nKhasa\\’is, by al-Nisa\\’i, p40
\nMusnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v3, pp 32-33
\nKanz al-Ummal, by al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, v6, p155
\nMajma\\’ al-Zawa\\’id, by al-Haythami, v9, p133
\nAhmad Ibn Hanbal and al-Hakim recorded with authentic document from Abu Said al-Khudri, that the Apostle of God said to Ali: “Verily you will do battle for (implementation of) the Quran, as you has done for its revelation.”
\nSunni reference: Tarikh al-Khulafaa, by Jalaluddin al-Suyuti, p173
\nal-Hakim recorded that Anas Ibn Malik narrated that the Holy Prophet said to Ali:
\n” You shall inform my nation about the truth and what they dispute after me”:
\nSunni reference:<\/strong>
\nal-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p112, who wrote this is an authentic Hadith according to the stipulation of the two Shaikhs (al-Bukhari and Muslim). [This would mean that the chain of narrators are considered to be authentic as stipulated by Bukhari and Muslim]
\nThe first Muslim<\/strong>
\nIt is an undisputed fact that Imam Ali was the first man to embrace Islam after the Holy Prophet (PBUH&HF). Below are some of the references
\nIbn Abi Shaybah and Ibn Asakir recorded on the authority of Salim Ibn Abi Jaad that he said: I asked of Muhammad Ibn Hanifah, “was Abu Bakr the first of the people to adopt Islam?” He replied: “No”.
\nAnd Ibn Asakir on a reliable ascription from Muhammad Ibn Sa\\’d Ibn Abi Waqqas, that he said to his father Sa\\’d: “was Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq the first of you in embracing the faith?” He said: “No, for there were more than five people in faith before him”
\nIbn Kathir says: “it is clear that Muhammad\\’s family believed before every other – his wife Khadija, his freedman Zaid and the Wife of Zaid Umm Ayman and Ali and Warakah.”
\nSunni reference:<\/strong>
\nTarikh al-Khulafaa, by Jalaluddin al-Suyuti, p33 (History of the Caliphs translated by Major Barrett)
\nIt is also narrated that
\nAnas Ibn Malik said: “The Messenger was commissioned on Monday and Ali believed in him on Tuesday.”
\nSunni reference: al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p112
\nal-Hakim also narrated that:
\nSalman al-Farsi said that the Messenger of God said: “The first one of you to drink from the Basin on the Day of Judgment is your first Muslim, Ali, the son of Abu Talib.”
\nSunni reference: al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p112
\nIbn Hisham recorded that:
\nAli Ibn Abi Talib was the first male to believe in the Messenger of God and that he prayed with him while he was only ten years old.
\nSunni reference: Biography of the Prophet, by Ibn Hisham, v1, p245
\nThe famous Sunni Historian, al-Tabari also wrote:
\nThe first three to offer prayers were Muhammad (PBUH&HF) , Khadija and Ali (AS).
\nSunni reference: History al-Tabari, v2, p65
\nAlso Khateeb al-Baghdadi, in his book quotes Imam Ali that:
\nAli said: “I was the first one to accept Islam at the hands of the Holy Prophet.”
\nTarikh, by al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi, v4, p333
\nEnd of Chapter 2 of the Shi\\’ite Encyclopedia v2.0<\/h4>\n

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