Hadith 17

nes, and the people were relieving him and were coming out from it. Ali-asws built it with plaster and brick’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I heard him-asws and he-asws was saying (a couplet): ‘Are you not seeing me-asws bagging the bags, building (it) after benefit of a chisel’’. [171]
And from Al Husayn Bin Hashim, from Abu Usman Al Dowry, from Abu Is’haq Al Sabie who said, ‘I was upon the neck of my father on the day of Friday and Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws was addressing, and he-asws was fanning his-asws sleeve. I said, ‘O father! Amir Al-Momineen-asws is feeling the heat? ’ He said, ‘He-asws neither feels the heat nor the cold, but he has washed his-asws shirt and it is (still) wet, and there is no other for him-asws, thus he-asws is fanning it’’. [172]
And from Ibrahim Bin Maymoun, from Ali Bin Abbas, from Abu Is’haq who said, ‘My father lifted me and I saw Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, white of head (hair) and the beard, wide of what is between the two shoulders’’. [173]
And by his chain from Abbad Bin Abdullah who said, ‘Ali-asws was addressing upon pulpit of bricks’’. [174]
And from Aday Bin Sabit who said, ‘Ali-asws was brought Falouzaj (a sweet dish), but he-asws refused to eat it’’. [175]
And from Salih, His grandmother came to Ali-asws and with him were some dates he-asws was carrying. She greeted unto him-asws and said, ‘Give me these dates to carry them’. He-asws said: ‘A father of dependants is more rightful with carrying it’. She said, ‘And he-asws said to me: ‘Will you not eat from it? ’ I said, ‘I do not want it’. I went with him-asws to his-asws house. Then he-asws returned and he-asws was wearing that quilt and therein were scales of dates. He-asws prayed the Friday Salat in it with the people’’. [176]
And from Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws was brought Khabeys (a dish), but he-asws refused to eat it. They said, ‘Are you-asws prohibiting it? ’ He-asws said: ‘No, but I-asws fear that my-asws soul might crave to it’. Then he-asws recited: “You squandered your good things in your lives of the world [46: 20]’’. [177]
And from one of the companions of Ali-asws, he said to him-asws, ‘How much are you-asws giving in charity! Will you-asws not withhold (some for yourself-asws)? ’ He-asws said: ‘Yes, by Allah-azwj! If I-asws come to know that Allah-azwj Accepted from me-asws one Obligation, I-asws shall withhold, but by Allah-azwj, I-asws do not know whether Allah-azwj Accepts something from me-asws or not? ’’[178]
And from Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan who said, ‘Ali-asws freed a thousand necks of family members with what his-asws hands had toiled and his forehead had perspires’’. [179]
And from Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws having said: ‘Ali-asws freed a thousand slaves from what his-asws hands had worked, and even though with you all are sweet dates, and milk, and white cotton clothes. And he-asws married Layla, and they made a carriage to be for him-as