and fifty.

He also transmitted another report stating that ʿAlī lived to sixty-three years, a figure likewise related from Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah and endorsed by Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī and Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh. This is further supported by what Ibn Jurayj narrated from Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, who informed him that ʿAlī died at sixty-three or sixty-four years of age.

Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq reported from his father that ʿAlī had seventeen concubines.

Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī narrated through Hubayrah ibn Yarīm that al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī once addressed us, saying: “Yesterday there departed from you a man whom only the earliest generations surpassed in knowledge, and whom the later generations will never equal. Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entrusted him with the banner, he would not return until victory had been granted. He left behind neither silver nor gold—nothing but seven hundred dirhams that remained from his allowance, which he had set aside to buy a servant for his family.”

Abū Isḥāq also related from ʿAmr al-Aṣamm: I said to al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, “The Shīʿah claim that ʿAlī will be sent back before the Day of Resurrection.” He replied, “By Allah, they are lying; such people are not our partisans. Had we believed that he would return, we would not have married off his wives nor divided his estate.” Shurayk transmitted the same report from Abū Isḥāq, but on the authority of ʿĀṣim ibn Ḍamrah in place of ʿAmr.

Were we to include everything that has been reported about the Commander of the Believers—may Allah be pleased with him—the book would become excessively long.