Hadith 17

ws, but he-asws broke it and said: ‘The most beloved of my-asws family to me-asws is what they are (already) in’’. [180]
And from Qudamah Bin Attaba who said, ‘Ali-asws was of a wide upper body, large shoulder bones, large forearm muscles, thin veins showing, large muscular legs, thin veins showing. And I saw him-asws addressing during a day from the days of winter, upon him-asws was a woollen shirt and trouser. A comer came to him-asws and said to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Go to the clan of Tameem for (clan of) Bakr Bin Wail have struck them at the church’. He-asws said: ‘Ha! ’ Then he came back to his-asws sermon. Then another one came and said similar to that. He-asws said: ‘Ha! ’ Then a third one came, and the fourth. Then said, ‘Go to (clan of) Bakr Bin Wail, the clan of Tameem have struck them at the church’. He-asws said: ‘Now you have ratified me-asws about your (clan of) Bakr, O Shaddad! ’ He-asws went to (clan of) Bakr Bin Wail and clan of Tameem and reconciled between them’’. [181]
Then Al Saqafi said, ‘And it is reported from Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws, from his-asws father-asws having said: ‘Ali-asws bought a Sunbulany shirt for four Dirham, then called the tailor. He extended the sleeve of the shirt and cut off whatever exceeded the fingers’’. [182]
And from Abdullah Bin Abu Huzeyl who said, ‘
‘I saw Ali-asws and upon him-asws was a shirt of his-asws. When he-asws extended it, it reached the ends of his-asws fingers, and when he-asws rolled it up, it was rolled up until it happened to be to half of his forearm’’. [183]
And from Abu Al-Ashas Al Anzy, from his father who said, ‘I saw Ali-asws and he-asws had bathed in the Euphrates on the day of Friday, then he-asws bought a cotton shirt for three Dirhams and prayed the Friday Salat with the people, and did not dye his-asws sock afterwards’’. [184]
And from Bakr Bin Isa who said, ‘Ali-asws was saying: ‘O people of Al-Kufa! When I-asws go out from your presence without my-asws luggage and my-asws ride, and my-asws slave, so I-asws am a betrayer’. And his-asws expenses used to come from his-asws harvest at Al-Medina, from Yanbu, and he-asws used to feed the people, the bread and the meat, and he-asws used to eat the porridge and the oil, and he-asws would top it up with the Al-Ajwa dates, and that was his-asws meal. And they claimed that he-asws used to distribute whatever would be in the public treasury, so the Friday would not come and there would be something in the public treasury, and he-asws used to order with the public treasury during every Thursday evening and it would be cleaned with the water, then he-asws would pray two Cycles in it. And they claimed that he-asws was saying and place his-asws hand upon his-asws belly: ‘By the One-azwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! There is nothing of my food and drink inside me-asws upon even a little from the embezzlement, and I-asws have brought the hunger out from it’’. [185]