Hadith 316

Ibn Abu Al Hadeed said in another place, ‘Our elder Abu Usman said, ‘It is narrated to me by Sumama who said, ‘I heard Ja’far Bin Yahya, and he was from the more eloquent of people and their most fluent of the words and the writing, by joining the words to their counterparts, ‘Are you not listening to the words of a poet to a poet, and he has prided, ‘I am more poetic than you are because I am saying, ‘The house and his-saww brother-asws’, while you are saying, ‘The house and son-asws of his-saww uncle’’. Then he said, ‘And not to mention the good by the words of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws: ‘Is there any alternative, or deliverance, or sanctuary, or refuge, or resolution, or a return? ’
Abu Usman said, ‘And Ja’far used to be fascinated as well by the words of Ali-asws: ‘Where is the one who works hard, and struggles, and gathers, and exerts and builds, so he spreads and furnishes, so he spreads it, and decorates, and renews? ’
He said, ‘Do you not see that every word from these has been taken with attachment to is pair, pulling it to itself, pointing upon it by itself? ’
Abu Usman said, ‘Ja’far used to name him-asws as ‘The most eloquent of Quraysh’, and know that we do not entertain doubts that he-asws is the more eloquent than every eloquent speaker of the Arabs, from the former ones and the latter ones, except what has happened from the Speech of Allah-azwj the Glorious, and speech of Rasool-Allah-saww. And that is because a merit of the speaker or the scribe in his sermon and his writing is reliant upon two matters – these are the vocabulary of the words and their compounding. As for the vocabulary, so if it happens to be easy, smoot, without hardness or complicated, and his-asws words, all of them are like that. And as for the compounding, so it is the goodly meaning, and quickness of attaining it to the understanding, and inclusive upon the description which can be relied with by preferring some of the speech over others, and these descriptions, it is the making which is named as the delaying, the changing from the front, and layering, and the goodly division, and returning the last of the speech to its main centre, and the inlaying, and the sharing, and the covering, and using the similar, and the borrowing, and subtlety of the utilisation of the metaphor, and the balancing, and the problematic, and there is no doubt that these description, all of them exist in his-asws sermons and his-asws letters, reproduced separately in relaying his-asws speech. And these two matters cannot be found in the speech of anyone apart from him-asws. So, if you were to utilise (learn) these, and think in it, and act, you will see it in its setting and its scattering, for he-asws has come with the wonder of the wonders, and it obligates that he-asws would happen to be an Imam-asws of the people, all of them, regarding that, because he-asws created it, and it was no known from before him-asws. And if he-asws abbreviated it initially and his-asws tongue flowed upon it improvising, and his-asws character was intrusive with it from without it having been reported (before), nor was it functional. So, wonder and wonder upon both the two matters, for he-asws had come preceding, and the fluency cut off their breaths upon its impact. And it was true what Muawiya had said to Al-Zaby when he said to him, ‘I have come to you from the presence of the most fatigued of the people’, ‘O son of the vile tongued! You are saying this for Ali-asws? And has anyone show the way of eloquence to Quraysh other than him-asws? ’
And know that encumberment of the evidence is based upon, that the sun is tired of shining, and his companion is attributed to the foolishness, and he isn’t rejecting the known matters of knowledge, necessary, with intense foolishness than the one who inferred the theoretical evidence with the justice, the view upon it’’. [159]
[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 1 a
[2] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 1 b
[3] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 1 c
[4] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 2
[5] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 3 a
[6] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 3 b
[7] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 3 c
[8] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 3 d
[9] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 3 e
[10] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 a
[11] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 b
[12] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 c
[13] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 d
[14] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 e
[15] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 f
[16] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 g
[17] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 h
[18] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 i
[19] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 j
[20] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 k
[21] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 l
[22] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 m
[23] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 n
[24] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 o
[25] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 p
[26] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 q
[27] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 4 r
[28] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 5 a
[29] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 113 H 5 b
[30] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 1
[31] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 2
[32] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 3
[33] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 4
[34] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 5
[35] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 6
[36] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 7
[37] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 8
[38] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 9
[39] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 10
[40] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 11
[41] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 12
[42] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 13
[43] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 14
[44] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 15
[45] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 16
[46] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 17
[47] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 18
[48] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 19
[49] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 20
[50] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 21
[51] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 22
[52] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 23
[53] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 24
[54] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 25
[55] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 26
[56] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 27
[57] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 28
[58] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The book of History – Amir Al-Momineen-asws, Ch 114 H 29
[59] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 41, The bo