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Similarly, Ibn Khallikan talks about people's doubt. Also after his commentary on the [[Shiqshiqiyya sermon]], [[Ibn Abi l-Hadid]] (d. 656/1258) tells a story which has roots in such doubts among people for which Ibn Abi l-Hadid himself gives definite answers. He says,
Similarly, Ibn Khallikan talks about people's doubt. Also after his commentary on the [[Shiqshiqiyya sermon]], [[Ibn Abi l-Hadid]] (d. 656/1258) tells a story which has roots in such doubts among people for which Ibn Abi l-Hadid himself gives definite answers. He says,


:"In 603/1206-1207, I heard from my teacher Musaddiq b. Shabib al-Wasiti that said, 'I recited this sermon (Shiqshiqiyya sermon ) for Abd Allah b. Ahmad known as Ibn Khashshab… then I told him, 'do you consider attribution of this sermon to [[Imam 'Ali (a)]] false?' He said, 'I swear to God, I believe it is his words like I know you are Musaddiq.' Then I told him, 'many people say this belongs to al-Sayyid al-Radi, God's mercy be with him.' He said, 'al-Radi or anyone else are far from this style of speech! We have seen al-Radi's treatises and we know his style in prose; he has not added anything to this, bad or good.' Then he continued, 'I swear to God, I have seen this sermon in the books written 200 years before al-Sayyid al-Radi was born and I know the handwriting of the author and I know to which of scholars or men of literature it belongs before Abu Ahmad, father of Radi, was born.'"<ref>Ibn Abī l-Ḥadīd, ''Sharḥ Nahj al-balāgha'', vol. 1, p. 205.</ref>
:"In 603/1206-7, I heard from my teacher Musaddiq b. Shabib al-Wasiti that said, 'I recited this sermon (Shiqshiqiyya sermon ) for Abd Allah b. Ahmad known as Ibn Khashshab… then I told him, 'do you consider attribution of this sermon to [[Imam 'Ali (a)]] false?' He said, 'I swear to God, I believe it is his words like I know you are Musaddiq.' Then I told him, 'many people say this belongs to al-Sayyid al-Radi, God's mercy be with him.' He said, 'al-Radi or anyone else are far from this style of speech! We have seen al-Radi's treatises and we know his style in prose; he has not added anything to this, bad or good.' Then he continued, 'I swear to God, I have seen this sermon in the books written 200 years before al-Sayyid al-Radi was born and I know the handwriting of the author and I know to which of scholars or men of literature it belongs before Abu Ahmad, father of Radi, was born.'"<ref>Ibn Abī l-Ḥadīd, ''Sharḥ Nahj al-balāgha'', vol. 1, p. 205.</ref>


Ibn Abi l-Hadid continues that,
Ibn Abi l-Hadid continues that,
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