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Imam 'Ali (a) assimilated his own state with the excitation of a camel; the sermon thus came out of his mouth and heart like a foam. He said that at the end of the sermon he was in a normal situation and thus he could not continue the sermon. This is why 'Abd Allah b. 'Abbas is quoted as saying that: "I have never regretted any talk remaining unfinished like I did for this sermon". | Imam 'Ali (a) assimilated his own state with the excitation of a camel; the sermon thus came out of his mouth and heart like a foam. He said that at the end of the sermon he was in a normal situation and thus he could not continue the sermon. This is why 'Abd Allah b. 'Abbas is quoted as saying that: "I have never regretted any talk remaining unfinished like I did for this sermon". | ||
==The sources of Shiqshiqiyya before Sayyid Radi== | ==The sources of Shiqshiqiyya before Sayyid al-Radi== | ||
Given criticisms made of the first three | Given criticisms made of the [[first three Caliphs]], many [[Sunni]] scholars cast doubts over the reliability of the sermon. Moreover, some of them said that this sermon alone shows that the whole ''[[Nahj al-balagha]]'' is unreliable. | ||
According to [[Shiite]] scholars, the sermon can be found in some works before Nahj al-balagha and its sources of narration go back to Imam 'Ali (a) himself. In his ''[[al-Ghadir]]'', [['Allama Amini]] mentioned 28 chains of narrations for this sermon in none of which [[Sayyid al-Radi]] appears. In the book ''"Partowi az Nahj al-balagha"'' (a light from Nahj al-balagha), 22 chains of narrations have been mentioned for the sermon, 8 of which are from sources before Sayyid al-Radi, 5 from Sayyid Radi's contemporaries, and 9 from sources after ''Nahj al-balagha'' or after the 5th/[[11th century]] from sources independent from ''Nahj al-balagha''. | According to [[Shiite]] scholars, the sermon can be found in some works before ''Nahj al-balagha'' and its sources of narration go back to Imam 'Ali (a) himself. In his ''[[al-Ghadir]]'', [['Allama Amini]] mentioned 28 chains of narrations for this sermon in none of which [[Sayyid al-Radi]] appears. In the book ''"Partowi az Nahj al-balagha"'' (a light from Nahj al-balagha), 22 chains of narrations have been mentioned for the sermon, 8 of which are from sources before Sayyid al-Radi, 5 from Sayyid Radi's contemporaries, and 9 from sources after ''Nahj al-balagha'' or after the 5th/[[11th century]] from sources independent from ''Nahj al-balagha''. | ||
* [[Ibn Abi l-Hadid]], the Sunni [[Mu'tazili]] scholar (d. [[656]]/1258) says, after his exposition of the sermon, that he had seen the sermon in the work of Abu l-Qasim al-Balkhi and Abu Ja'far b. | * [[Ibn Abi l-Hadid]], the Sunni [[Mu'tazili]] scholar (d. [[656]]/1258) says, after his exposition of the sermon, that he had seen the sermon in the work of [[Abu l-Qasim al-Balkhi]] and [[Ibn Qiba al-Razi|Abu Ja'far b. Qiba]] both of whom had died before the birth of Sayyid al-Radi. | ||
* [[Al-Shaykh al-Saduq]], who lived before Sayyid al-Radi, cited the Shiqshiqiyya sermon in his wok with a chain of narrators going back to Imam 'Ali (a); once in his ''[['Ilal al-shara'i']]'' and once in his ''[[Ma'ani l-akhbar]]''. | * [[Al-Shaykh al-Saduq]], who lived before Sayyid al-Radi, cited the Shiqshiqiyya sermon in his wok with a chain of narrators going back to Imam 'Ali (a); once in his ''[['Ilal al-shara'i']]'' and once in his ''[[Ma'ani l-akhbar]]''. | ||