Hadith 12

t, if a Muslim had disputed with me-asws, I-asws would not sit except with him, but he is a Christian, and Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Whenever you and them are in a road, then lead them to annoyance, and belittle them just as Allah-azwj Belittled them without being unjust’’. Then Ali-asws said: ‘This is my-asws armour. I-asws did not sell it and did not gift it’. The Christian said, ‘It is not except my armour, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws is not a liar in my view’. Shureyh turned to Ali-asws and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Is there any proof? ’ He-asws said: ‘No’. So, Shuryeh judged with it to be for the Christian. The Christian took it and walked for a while, then came back and said, ‘As for I, I testify that this is a ruling of the Prophets-as. Amir Al-Momineen-asws walked to his-asws judge, and his-asws judge judged against him-asws! I testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj Alone, there is no associate for Him-azwj, and that Muhammad-saww is His-azwj servant and His-azwj Rasool-saww. By Allah-azwj! The armour is your-asws armour, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws’. He-asws said: ‘But, when you have become a Muslims, so it is for you’, and he-asws carried him upon a horse. Al-Shaby said, ‘The one who reported informed me that he fought alongside Ali-asws against the Kharijites at Al-Nahrawan’’. [82]
And from Abu Amro Al Kindy who said, ‘One day we were in the presence of Ali-asws. The people were concordant to him-asws, feeling good in self and mood. They said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Narrate to us about your-asws companions’. He-asws said: ‘Which of my-asws companions are you asking about? ’ They said, ‘About the companions of Muhammad-saww’. He-asws said: ‘All the companions of Muhammad-saww are my-asws companions, so about which of them are you asking me-asws? ’ They said, ‘About those we have seen you-asws being to them with your-asws mention and with the Salawaat upon them, besides (other) people’. He-asws said: ‘About which of them? ’ They said, ‘Narrate to us about Abdullah Bin Masoud’. He-asws said: ‘He read the Quran and knew the Sunnah, and he sufficed with that’. They said, ‘By Allah-azwj! We did not know of his-asws words, ‘And he sufficed with that. Did he sufficed with reading the Quran and knew the Sunnah? Or did he suffice with worshipping Allah-azwj? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘We said, ‘Narrate to us about Abu Zarr-ra’. He-asws said: ‘He-ra asked a lot of questions, so he-ra was given and prevented, and he-ra was desirous, eager upon his religion, kept upon the firm knowledge. He-ra had been filled in retention of his-ra to the extent that his-ra retention was filled up with knowledge he-ra was unable regarding it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘By Allah-azwj! We did not know of his-asws words: ‘He-ra was unable regarding it’. Was he-ra unable from revealing whatever was with him-ra? Or was he-ra unable from question it? ’
We said, ‘Narrated to us about Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yamani’. He-asws said: ‘He knew names of the hypocrites, and asked about the dilemmas when others were heedless about these, and