Hazrat Imam Ali AS is known for his miracles and virtues. Some of his famous virtues are common to all but few of them are not, those non-popular ones are mentioned here.
Narrated by Abdullah ibne Abbass (RA)
Once Abdullah Ibne Abbass was in the palace of Mawiyah ibne Abu Sufiyan. Few scholars came into the palace and said to Mawiyah "our King of Rome sent us here to demand something from you".
Mawiyah replied: "go ahead".
They said, "we have brought a little crystal bottle with us and our king wants you to fill it with all the things of this universe".
Mawiyah was surprised by his demand. He said, "How I could fill this little bottle with all the creations of this universe?"
The scholars got disappointed and wanted to go back, suddenly Abdullah Ibne Abbass stopped them and said "Let me solve your problem" Mawiyah allowed him to do so. Abdullah Ibne Abbass filled the bottle with water and said: "Take this to your king now". Mawiyah looked towards Abdulla astonishingly and Abdulla Said "Yes! everything in this universe is created from the water that is why I filled it with water, now you can see the whole universe is confined in this little bottle.
Mawiyah was amused by Abdullah's knowledge and said: "where did you seek this kind of knowledge?"
Abdullah replied "I got it from the greatest scholar of all-Hazrat Ali AS"
Mawiyah said, "As you are also a scholar, so what is the difference between both of you?"
Abdullah Ibne Abbass replied with a smile "Same like the difference between the water in the bottle and the water of the sea"
Narrated by Baba Fareed Ganj Shaker (R)
Hazrat baba Fareed Ganj Shaker was the pious spiritual personality.
Once he was sitting with his followers, after preaching his followers started dispersing but one of them stood there. Baba Fareed said to him why he is not leaving then he replied: "I want to stay here more ".After some time he asked a question to baba Fareed, "as you are a pious person and so as Imam Ali (AS), so what is the difference between both of you?".
Baba Fareed asked him humbly; "From where you belong and what do you do?". He said, "I worked for a rich man who lives in the village 'Malika Hans', I used to take care of his cows and other animals".
Baba Fareed then said, "So what does your master eat?". He said "A wheat bread", baba again asked and what do you eat? he replied "the same meal -a bread made up of wheat"
Now Baba Fareed again asked, "As both of you having the same meal, so what is the difference between both of you?"
He said: "There is a big difference, my master eats his food but I use to eat food given by him".
Finally, Baba Fareed told him: "Dear! same is the case with me, Ali AS eats his own food (food of knowledge), but I use to take food (food of knowledge) from Imam Ali AS".
Narrated by Imam Ahmed Bin Hambal
Imam Ahmed Bin Hambal is the name famous in non-Shiite sects. Although he is from a different school of thought but still he praised a lot about Imam Ali AS in his preachings.
Once he was sitting among his followers and sons. One of his sons asked: "Dear Father! is it true that people say Imam Ali AS is the separator of Heaven and Hell?".
Imam Hambal said: "Yes that's true". Son asked how and Imam Ahmed replied: "It is Prophet Mohammed S.A.W.W's saying, no hypocrite could ever fall in love with Imma Ali AS and none of his lover could be a hypocrite one, so according to this no hypocrite will go into the heaven and any of his lover in hell ".
On such praise, all of them became silent for a while. Then one of his sons again asked: "Please tell us about the most honorable Sahabi of Prophet Mohammed S.A.W.W". Imam Ahmed told them few names of Sahaba Karam RA.
Another son asked about the most perfect Sahabi, again Imam Ahmed replied with a few list of Sahabi.
Now this time, one final said "who is the greatest Sahabi out of all'. Imam again came with the list of few greatest Sahaba Karam.
After hearing this all, they said "Father! haven't you recently praised a lot about Imam Ali AS, don't you find him an honorable, perfect and greatest Sahabi at all? "
Imam Ahmed Bin Hamabl then smiled and said "You asked about the Sahabi e Rasool Khuda S.A.W.W that is why I told you all the names of Sahaba Karam RA, but if you would ask about "a person who favored Islam a lot" then my answer would have been, Imam Ali AS"
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