Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-787b
"عَنِ ابن عباس أن عليا خطب الناس فَقَالَ: يأيها الناس! ما هذه المقالةُ السِّيِّئَة التى تبلغنى عنكم؟ ! والله لَتَقْتُلُنَّ طلحة والزبير، ولتَفْتَحُنَّ البصرة، ولَتَأتِيَنكمْ مادةٌ مِن الكوفة ستة آلاف وخمسمائة وستين، أو خمسة آلاف وستمائة وخمسين، قال ابن عباس: فقلت: الحرب خُدْعَةٌ، قال: فخرجت فأقبلت أسأل الناس: كم أنتم؟ فقالوا كما قال، فقلت: هذا مما أَسَرَّهُ إليه رسول الله ﷺ إنه علمه ألف ألف كلمة، كل كلمة تفتح ألف كلمة".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn ʿBās n ʿLyā Khṭb al-Nās
- Yʾyhā
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Narrated from Ibn 'Abbas: 'Ali delivered a sermon to the people and said: 'O people! What is this evil talk that has reached me from you? By Allah, you will kill Talhah and al-Zubayr, you will conquer Basra, and there will come to you a reinforcement from Kufa of six thousand five hundred and sixty, or five thousand six hundred and fifty.' Ibn 'Abbas said: 'I said: War is deception.' He said: 'So I went out and began asking the people: How many are you? They said what he said. So I said: This is something the Messenger of Allah ﷺ confided to him. He was taught a thousand thousand words, each word opening a thousand words.'"
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الإسماعيلى في معجمه، وفيه الأجلح صدوق شيعى جلد
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