Hadith 126

r than the Speech of the Creator and above speech of the creatures, and from it the people learnt the oration and the writing. And Abdul Hameed Bin Yahya said, ‘I have preserved seventy sermons from the sermons of the short-haired ones (Ali-asws), so it overflowed, then overflowed’. And Ibn Nubata said, ‘I have preserved from the sermons, a treasure, the spending (giving out) does not increase except the capacity’. And there are many who have preserved a hundred from the preaching of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. And when Mihfan Bin Abu Mihfan said to Muawiya, ‘I have come to you from the presence of the most exhausted of the people’, he said to him, ‘Woe be to you! How can he-asws be the most fatigued of the people? By Allah-azwj! No one is showing the way of eloquence to Quraysh apart from him-asws’. And this book suffices, which we are commenting upon (Nahj Al-Balagah) as evidence upon that he-asws has not been surpassed in the eloquence, nor matched in the articulation and it suffices you that it has not been written down for anyone from the companions of eloquence, even the tenth or half of a tenth from what has been written down for him-asws. And if suffices you in this chapter what Abu Usman the memoriser has said in his-asws praise in the book ‘Al-Bayan Wa Al-Tabiyeen’, and in other from his books. And as for the beautiful manners, and cheerful face, and his-asws fluency of expression, and the smiling, it is what the examples are being struck with, until his-asws enemies faulted him-asws with that, and Amro Bin Al-Aas said to the people of Syria, ‘He-asws is with a lot of joking’ (Nouzobillah). And Ali-asws said regarding that: ‘I-asws am surprised at Ibn Al-Nabigha (Amro Bin Al-Aas) claiming to the people of Syrian that there is joking in me-asws, and I-asws am a man who is playful, wrestling, (physical) exercise’. And Amro Bin Al-Aas rather took it from Umar, due to his words when he determined upon making him-asws the caliph, ‘For the Sake of Allah-azwj! If only there been no playfulness in you-asws’, except that Umar was brief upon it, and Amor added in it and spun it. Sa’sa Bin Sawhan and others from his-asws Shias and his-asws companions said, ‘He-asws was among us like one of us – complaisant, extremely humble, guiding easily, and were used be awed by him-asws like the awe of a prisoner tied up for the executioner standing by his head’. And Muawiya said to Qays Bin Sa’ad, ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on Abu Hassan-asws! He-asws was a crisp and sharp with humour’. Qays said, ‘Yes, Rasool-Allah-saww used to joke and smile at his-saww companions, and I see you feeling a sense of pleasure in raising it and its shame in that. But by Allah-azwj! Along with that humour and fluency there was more fear than one with the two appearances. The folding had touched that awe, not like what the tyrants of the people of Syria touch, and this mannerism has remained being inherited, being transferred in ones who love him-asws and his-asws friends until today, like what the disloyalty, and the harshness, and the roughness in the other sides. And the one who has been harmed with the condu