Hadith 137

(The book) ‘Nahj Al-Balagah’ – ‘By Allah-azwj! I-asws have patched this shirt of mine to the extent that I-asws am now embarrassed from patching it (anymore), and a speaker had said to me-asws, ‘Will you not throw it away from you-asws? ’ I-asws said: ‘Get away from me-asws! It is during the morning that the people tend to praise the darkness of the night’’. [98]
And Abdul Hameed Bin Abu Al Hadeed said this speech in the commentary, ‘There has come in the Ahadeeth of Ali-asws which are mentioned by Abu Abdullah Ahmad Bin Hanbal in the book of his-asws merits, and it is my report from Quraysh Bin Al Subie Bin Al Muhanna Al Alawy, from Abu Abdullah Ahmad Bin Ali Bin Al Moammar, from Al Mubarak Bin Abdul Jabbar Bin Ahmad Bin Al Qasim Al Sayrafi well known as Ibn Al Tuyuri, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Yusuf Al Allaf Al Muzanny, from Abu Bakr Ahmad Bin Ja’far Bin Hamdan Bin Malik Al Qatie, from Abdullah Bin Ahmad Bin Hanbal, from his father Abu Abdullah Ahmad who said, ‘It was said to Ali-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Why do you patch your-asws shirt? ’ He-asws said: ‘It humbles the heart and the Momineen can imitate with it’’. [99]
And it is reported by Ahmad, ‘Ali-asws used to go around the markets having trousered with a trouser covered by a cloak, and with him-asws was the whip, as if he-asws was a Desert Bedouin. He-asws went around once until he-asws reached the market of white cotton. He-asws said to one, ‘O sheykh! Sell me-asws a shirt for three Dirhams! ’
When the father of the boy came, he informed him. So, he took a Dirham, then came to Ali-asws to hand it back. He-asws said: ‘What is this? ’ Or he-asws said ‘What is this concern of yours? ’ He said, ‘O my Master-asws! The shirt which my son sold to you only equates to two Dirhams’. But he-asws did not take the Dirham and said: ‘He sold to me-asws with my-asws agreement, and I-asws took it with his agreement’’. [100]
And it is reported by Ahmad, from Abu Al Bawar, seller of garments at Al Kufa who said, ‘Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws came to the market and there was a slave with him-asws, and he-asws was the caliph. He-asws bought two shirts from me, and said to his-asws slave, ‘Choose whichever of the two you like’. He took one of them and Ali-asws took the other’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he-asws wore it and extended his-asws hand, and he-asws found its sleeve to be too long. He-asws said: ‘Cut off the extra bit’. He cut it. Then he-asws held it and went away’’. [101]
And it is reported by Ahmad, from Al Samaal Bin Umeyr who said, ‘I was a shirt of Ali-asws which he-asws had been killed it, and it was white cotton ‘Sanbulany’, and I saw his-asws blood who have flowed upon it like the (brown) residue’’. [102]
And it is reported by Ahmad who said, When Usman sent someone to Ali-asws, he found him-asws covered in his-asws cloak and he-asws was providing a camel of his-asws’’. [103]