Hadith 17

o (the time of) your-asws award’. So I sold him-asws a trouser to his-asws award. When he-asws had taken possession of his-asws award, he-asws gave me its price’’. [165]
And from Abu Is’haq Al Hamdany, ‘Two women came to Ali-asws during the distribution, one of them from the Arabs and the other from the slaves. He-asws gave each one twenty-five Dirhams and a bowl of food. The Arabian said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I am a woman from the Arabs and this woman is from the non-Arabs! ’ He-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! I-asws cannot find any merit for the children of Ismail-as in this distribution, any merit from the children of Is’haq-as’’. [166]
And from Yusuf Bin Kuleyb, from Abu Ubeyda, from Abdullah Bin Masoud, from Muawiya Bin Ammat, ‘From Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws having said: ‘No two matters clashed unto Ali-asws at all except he-asws took with the severer of the two, and he-asws did not cease to be eating in your presence from what he-asws had worked with his-asws own hands. When they came with it to him-asws from Al-Medina, and if he-asws were to take the Suweyk (porridge), he-asws would make it to be in the container, then seal upon it, fearing that there might be added in it from something else. And who has been more ascetic in the world than Ali-asws? ! ’’[167]
And from Abu Suweyd Bin Al Haris who said, ‘Ali-asws instructed his-asws workers and the made food for the people during a month of Ramazan. They mentioned that they had made twenty-five bowls’’. [168]
And from Haroun Bin Muslim Al Bajaly, from his father who said, ‘Ali-asws had given the people three awards during one year, then taxes of Isfahan came to him-asws. He-asws said: ‘O you people! Come tomorrow morning and take, for by Allah-azwj, I-asws am not a treasurer of yours! ’ Then he-asws ordered with the public treasury so it was swept and sprinkled (with water). He-asws prayed two Cycles Salat in it, then said: ‘O World! Deceive other than me-asws’. Then he-asws came out, and there he was with a hill (load) by the door of the Masjid. He-asws said: ‘What is this hill? ’ It was said, ‘They have come with it from the land of Chosroe’. He-asws said: ‘Distribute it between the Muslims’. It was as if they disdained it, so they broke part of it, and there it was manufactured cotton (linen). So, they competed regarding it, and the hill (load) reached from the end of the day, to be Dirhams’’. [169]
And from Sufyan Bin Uyayna, from Ammar Al Duhny, from Saalim Bin Abu Ja’ad who said, ‘Ali-asws obligated for the ones who read the Quran, two thousand, two thousand (each). And my father was from the ones who read the Quran’’. [170]
And from Ibrahim Bin Yahya Al Sowry, from Abu Is’haq Bin Mihran, from Sabiq Al Baebery who said, ‘I saw Ali-asws lay the foundation of Masjid Al-Kufa to near from an arch of the oil sellers, a measurement of a palm’s width by a palm’s width’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I saw Al-Mukhayyas and it is from the specialised o