Source & Attribution
Hadiths
2,260 total
Nahj al-Balagha 261
I was sitting when sleep overtook me. I saw the Prophet of Allah appear before me, and I said : “O Prophet of Allah ! wh…
Nahj al-Balagha 262
as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: “al-awad” means crookedness and “al-ladad” means enmity, and this is the most eloquent expressio…
Nahj al-Balagha 263
In condemnation of the people of Iraq
Nahj al-Balagha 264
Now then. O people [1] of Iraq! You are like the pregnant woman who, on completion of the period of pregnancy delivers a…
Nahj al-Balagha 265
Herein Amīr al-mu’minīn tells people how to pronounce “aṣ-Ṣalāt” (to invoke Divine blessing) on the Prophet.
Nahj al-Balagha 266
My Allāh, the Spreader of the surfaces (of earth) and Keeper (intact) of all skies, Creator of hearts on good and evil n…
Nahj al-Balagha 267
Send Thy choicest blessings and growing favours on Muḥammad Thy servant and Thy Prophet who is the last of those who pre…
Nahj al-Balagha 268
My Allāh prepare large place for him under Thy shade and award him multiplying good by Thy bounty. My Allāh give height …
Nahj al-Balagha 269
Amīr al-mu’minin said about Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam at Baṣrah. When Marwān was taken prisoner on the day of Jamal, he asked …
Nahj al-Balagha 270
Did he not swear me allegiance after the killing of ‘Uthmān? Now I do not need his allegiance, because his is the hand o…
Nahj al-Balagha 271
When the Consultative Committee (or Shūrā) decided to swear allegiance to ‘Uthmān, Amīr al-mu’minīn said:
Nahj al-Balagha 272
You have certainly known that I am the most rightful of all others for the Caliphate. By Allāh, so long as the affairs o…
Nahj al-Balagha 273
When Amīr al-mu’minin learnt that the Umayyads blamed him for killing ‘Uthmān, he said:
Nahj al-Balagha 274
Umayyads’s knowledge about me did not desist them from accusing me, nor did my precedence (in accepting Islam) kept off …
Nahj al-Balagha 275
About preaching and counselling
Nahj al-Balagha 276
Allāh may bless him who listens to a point of wisdom and retains it, when he is invited to the right path he approaches …
Nahj al-Balagha 277
About Umayyads
Nahj al-Balagha 278
The Banu Umayyah (Umayyads) are allowing me the inheritance of Muḥammad (S) bit (by bit). By Allāh, if I live I would th…
Nahj al-Balagha 279
as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: In one version for “al-widhamu 'ttaribah” (dust covered piece of flesh) the words “at-turābu 'lw…
Nahj al-Balagha 280
Supplications of Amīr al-mu’minin.