Source & Attribution
Hadiths
2,260 total
Nahj al-Balagha 1201
Shurayḥ replied: Yes, Amīr al-mu’minīn, it is so. Amīr al-mu’minīn cast an angry look at him and said to him:
Nahj al-Balagha 1202
O Shurayḥ, beware, shortly one body (the angel of death) will come to you who will not look at the document, nor questio…
Nahj al-Balagha 1203
Look! O Shurayḥ, if you have purchased this, house from money other than yours or paid the price from unlawful source, y…
Nahj al-Balagha 1204
This is about a purchase made by a humble slave (of Allāh) from another slave ready to depart (for the next world). He h…
Nahj al-Balagha 1205
The first boundary is contiguous to sources of calamities; the second boundary adjoins the sources of distress; the thir…
Nahj al-Balagha 1206
This house has been purchased by one who has been waylaid by desires from one who is being driven by death at the price …
Nahj al-Balagha 1207
This document is witnessed by intelligence when it is free from the shackles of desires and safe from the attachments to…
Nahj al-Balagha 1208
To one of the officers of his army.
Nahj al-Balagha 1209
If they [1] return to the umbrella of obedience then this is all that we want. But if the condition of these people poin…
Nahj al-Balagha 1210
To al-Ash‘ath ibn Qays (al-Kindī), the Governor of Āzarbāyjān
Nahj al-Balagha 1211
Certainly, your assignment [1] is not a morsel for you, but it is a trust round your neck, and you have been charged wit…
Nahj al-Balagha 1212
To Mu‘āwiyah (ibn Abī Sufyān)
Nahj al-Balagha 1213
Verily, those who swore allegiance to Abū Bakr, ‘Umar and ‘Uthmān have sworn allegiance [1] to me on the same basis on w…
Nahj al-Balagha 1214
By my life, O Mu‘āwiyah, if you see with your intellect without any passion you will find me the most innocent of all in…
Nahj al-Balagha 1215
To Mu‘āwiyah
Nahj al-Balagha 1216
I have received from you the packet of unconnected advices and the embellished letter. You have written it because of yo…
Nahj al-Balagha 1217
[A part of the same letter :] Because allegiance is once and for all; it is not open to reconsideration nor is there any…
Nahj al-Balagha 1218
To Jarīr ibn ‘Abdillāh al-Bajalī when Amīr al-mu’minīn sent him to Mu‘āwiyah (and there was delay in his return)
Nahj al-Balagha 1219
Now then, when you receive this letter of mine ask Mu‘āwiyah to take a final decision and to follow a determined course.…
Nahj al-Balagha 1220
To Mu‘āwiyah