Hadith 126

and the humbleness to His-azwj Might, and the humbleness to Him-azwj, you will know what is contained upon it from the sincerity and understanding from whichever heart it comes out of, and upon whichever tongue it flows. And it was said to Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws, and he-asws was the peak in the worship, ‘Where is your-asws worship from the worship by your-asws grandfather-asws? ’ He-asws said: ‘My-asws worship in comparison to the worship of my-asws grandfather-asws like the worship of my-asws grandfather-asws in comparison to the worship of Rasool-Allah-saww’. And as for the recital of the Quran and the pre-occupation with it, he-asws is the one looked to. In this subject, everyone is agreed upon that he-asws had memorised the Quran in the era of Rasool-Allah-saww and there did not happen to be anyone else who had memorised it. Then he-asws is the first one to have collected it. All of them have transmitted that he-asws delayed from pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr. The people of Hadeeth (non-Shias) are not saying what the Shias are saying, from that he-asws delayed being opposed to the allegiance, but they are saying that he-asws had pre-occupied with collecting the Quran. So, this is evidence that he-asws was the first one to have collected the Quran, because if he-asws had collected it during the lifetime of Rasool-Allah-saww, he-asws would not have been needy to be collecting it after his-saww passing away. And when you return to the books of recitation, you find the leaders of the recitation, all of them returning to him-asws, like Abu Amro Bin Abu Al-A’ala, and Aasim Bin Abu Al-Najoud and others, because they were returning to Abu Abdul Rahman Al-Sulamy Al-Farsy, and Abu Abdul Rahman was his-asws student, and he took the Quran from him-asws. So, this skill from the skills has come to be ending to him-asws as well, like most of what has passed. And as for the opinion and the strategy, he-asws was the most intense of the people of expressing a view, and their most correct in having a strategy. And he-asws is the one who consulted to Umar, when he had determined upon heading to battle Rome and Persia himself, with what he-asws consulted. And he-asws is the one who consulted to Usman with affairs what was his better in these, and had he accepted it, there would not have occurred upon him what had occurred. And rather his-asws enemies had said, ‘There was no view for him-asws because he-asws was led by the Law. He-asws neither view any different from it nor did he-asws act with what would break the religion of its Prohibition. And he-asws had said: ‘Had it not been for the piety, I-asws would have been the most cunning of the Arabs’. And others from the caliphs were acting with disrupting whatever he-asws had corrected and stopping him-asws, it being the same whether it was in accordance with the Law or it did not happen to be so. And there is no doubt that the one who acted with what his striving leads to and does not pause with the controls and the restriction, would be prevented for its reasons from what he-asws sees to be the correction in it, his worldly situation wou