Source & Attribution
Hadiths
2,260 total
Nahj al-Balagha 541
[A part of the same sermon :] It is as if I see you uttering voices like the rustling sound of lizards! You do not seek …
Nahj al-Balagha 542
To exhort his followers to fight [1]
Nahj al-Balagha 543
Put the armoured man forward and keep the unarmoured one behind. Grit your teeth because this will make the swords skip …
Nahj al-Balagha 544
Do not let your banner bend down, nor leave it alone. Do not give it to anyone except the brave and the defenders of hon…
Nahj al-Balagha 545
By Allāh, even if you run away from the sword of today you would not remain safe from the sword of the next world. You a…
Nahj al-Balagha 546
They will not budge from their stand till the continuous striking of spears causes piercings (of wounds) through which w…
Nahj al-Balagha 547
as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says : “ad-da‘q” means trampling, e.g., “taduqqu’l-khuyūlu biḥawāfirihā ardahum” (the horses trample …
Nahj al-Balagha 548
About the Khārijites and their opinion on Arbitration
Nahj al-Balagha 549
We did not name people the arbitrators but we named the Qur’ān the arbitrator. The Qur’ān is a book, covered, between tw…
Nahj al-Balagha 550
Reference to Allāh means that we decide according to the Qur’ān while reference to the Prophet means that we follow his …
Nahj al-Balagha 551
Concerning your point why I allowed a time lag between myself and them with regard to the Arbitration, I did so in order…
Nahj al-Balagha 552
So, where are you being mislead and from where have you been brought (to this state)? Be prepared to march to the people…
Nahj al-Balagha 553
When Amīr al-mu’minīn was spoken ill of for showing equality in the distribution (of shares from Bayt al-mal or the Musl…
Nahj al-Balagha 554
Do you command me that I should seek support by oppressing those over whom I have been placed? By Allāh, I won’t do so a…
Nahj al-Balagha 555
About the Khārijites
Nahj al-Balagha 556
If you do not stop believing that I have gone wrong and been misled, why do you consider that the common men among the f…
Nahj al-Balagha 557
Certainly you are the most evil of all persons and are those whom Satan has put on his lines and thrown out into his way…
Nahj al-Balagha 558
Certainly the two arbitrators were appointed to revive what the Qur’ān revives and to destroy what the Qur’ān destroys. …
Nahj al-Balagha 559
About important happenings at Baṣrah
Nahj al-Balagha 560
O Aḥnaf! It is as though I see him advancing with an army which has neither dust nor noise, nor rustling of reins, nor n…