Abu Al-Wadi says that when Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was engaged in battle with the people of Nahrawan, I was present there. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Look for a man among the slain whose hand is defective and incomplete." The people searched for him among the corpses but did not find him, and the people began to say, "We cannot find him." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Go and search again. By Allah! I am not lying to you, nor has I been lied to." This happened several times, and each time Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) sent the people again to search, and each time he swore an oath, saying, "I am not lying to you, nor has I been lied to." The last time, when the people searched, they found him lying under the corpses of the slain, buried in the dirt. They took him out and brought him before Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). Abu Al-Wadi says: "It seems to me as if I am still seeing him before my eyes; he was an Abyssinian, on whose hand there was a mark like a woman's breast, and on that breast were hairs just like those on the tail of a wild mouse."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the use of vessels made from pumpkin gourds and those made from wood.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that one day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting waiting for a funeral. (In his blessed hand was a stick) with which he was scratching the ground. After a short while, he raised his head and said: "The abode of every one of you—whether Paradise or Hell—is present and determined in Allah's knowledge." The noble Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) asked: O Messenger of Allah! Should we not rely on this? He said: "Continue to do deeds, for each person will find it easy to do the deeds for which he was created." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this verse of the Qur'an: «﴿فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَى وَاتَّقَى، وَصَدَّقَ بِالْحُسْنَى، فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْيُسْرَى﴾ [الليل: 5-7] » "So as for he who gives and fears Allah and believes in the best [reward] , We will ease him toward ease."

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that I used to have a lot of madhi (pre-seminal fluid). Since the daughter of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in my marriage, I felt shy to ask the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about this issue myself. So I asked Sayyiduna Miqdad (may Allah be pleased with him) to ask the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about this issue. Accordingly, he asked about this issue, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Such a person should perform wudu (ablution)."

Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) says that once Sayyiduna Umar Farooq (may Allah be pleased with him) intended to stone a mad woman, so Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say: "Three types of people are exempt from accountability: (1) The sleeping person, until he wakes up, (2) The child, until he reaches puberty, (3) The insane person, until his sanity returns." Thus, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) suspended her punishment.

Huzain says that some people from Kufa came to the service of Sayyiduna Uthman Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him), and they informed Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) about some news regarding Walid's drinking of alcohol. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) also spoke to them about this matter, so Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him, "Your cousin is entrusted to you, you carry out the punishment upon him." He said to Sayyiduna Imam Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him), "Hasan! Stand up and lash him." He replied, "You cannot do this work, assign it to someone else." He said, "Actually, you have become weak and incapable, so Abdullah bin Ja'far! You stand up and carry out the punishment upon him." Thus, Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Ja'far (may Allah be pleased with him) kept lashing him and Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) kept counting. When forty lashes were completed, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "Stop, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) lashed the drinker of alcohol with forty lashes, Sayyiduna Abu Bakr Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) also lashed with forty lashes, but Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) lashed with eighty, and both are Sunnah."

Imam Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Sharahah al-Hamdaniyyah came to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and said, "I have committed adultery, so give me the punishment." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "It is possible that you saw yourself doing this in a dream, or perhaps you were forced into this act?" But she kept replying "No" to every question. So Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) flogged her on Thursday, and on Friday he carried out the punishment of stoning on her, and said, "I have flogged her in the light of the Book of Allah, and stoned her in the light of the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbidding keeping the meat of sacrifice with oneself for more than three days.

Nuaim bin Dajjajah says that once Sayyiduna Abu Mas’ud Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“Was it you who said that a hundred years will not pass over the people before there remains no eye on the earth that blinks, meaning all the people will die?”You made a mistake in this. What the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) actually said was:“Of those who are alive today, after a hundred years, there will not remain any eye among them that blinks,”meaning the Day of Judgment is not intended. By Allah! After a hundred years, this Ummah will receive ease.

Abu’l-Wadi says that when Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was engaged in battle with the people of Nahrawan, I was present there. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“Look for a man among the slain whose hand is defective and incomplete.”The people searched for him among the corpses but did not find him, and the people began to say,“We cannot find him.”Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“Go and search again. By Allah! I am not lying to you, nor has I been lied to.”The last time when the people searched for him, they found him lying under the corpses of the slain, buried in the earth. They took him out and brought him before Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). Abu’l-Wadi says:“It seems to me as if I am still seeing him before my eyes; he was an Abyssinian, on whose hand there was a mark like a woman’s breast, and on that breast were hairs like those on the tail of a wild mouse.”