Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib (A.S) >Hadees 3

 Riyad as-Salihin

 Book 1, Hadith 175

Sahl bin Sa'd (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
Messenger of Allah (?) said on the day of the Khaibar Battle, "I will give this banner to a person at whose hands
 Allah will grant victory; a man who loves Allah and His Messenger (?), and Allah and His Messenger love him also."
The people spent the night thinking as to whom it would be given. When it was morning, the people hastened to
Messenger of Allah (?). Every one of them was hoping that the banner would be given to him. He (the Prophet (?))
asked, "Where is 'Ali bin Abu Talib?" They said: "O Messenger of Allah! His eyes are sore." He (?) then sent for
 him and when he came, Messenger of Allah (?) applied his saliva to his eyes and supplicated. 'Ali (May Allah be
 pleased with him) recovered as if he had no ailment at all. He (?) conferred upon him the banner. 'Ali (May Allah
 be pleased with him) said: ''O Messenger of Allah, shall I fight against them until they are like us?" Thereupon
 he (the Prophet (?)) said, "Advance cautiously until you reach their open places; thereafter, invite them to Islam
and inform them what is obligatory for them from the Rights of Allah, for, by Allah, if Allah guides even one person
through you that is better for you than possessing a whole lot of red camels".

[Al- Bukhari and Muslim].




Sahih al-Bukhari

: Vol. 5, Book 57, Hadith 95


Narrated Anas:
None resembled the Prophet (?) more than Al-Hasan bin `Ali did.




Sahih al-Bukhari

Vol. 5, Book 57, Hadith 56

And narrated Sad
that the Prophet (?) said to 'Ali, "Will you not be pleased from this that you are to me like Aaron was to Moses?"



Sahih al-Bukhari

Vol. 4, Book 52, Hadith 192
Vol. 4, Book 52, Hadith 253
Vol. 5, Book 57, Hadith 51

Narrated Sahl bin Sa`d:
That he heard the Prophet (?) on the day (of the battle) of Khaibar saying, "I will give the flag to a person
 at whose hands Allah will grant victory." So, the companions of the Prophet (?) got up, wishing eagerly to
see to whom the flag will be given, and everyone of them wished to be given the flag. But the Prophet asked for `Ali.
 Someone informed him that he was suffering from eye-trouble. So, he ordered them to bring `Ali in front of him.
 Then the Prophet (?) spat in his eyes and his eyes were cured immediately as if he had never any eye-trouble.
`Ali said, "We will fight with them (i.e. infidels) till they become like us (i.e. Muslims)." The Prophet (?) said,
 "Be patient, till you face them and invite them to Islam and inform them of what Allah has enjoined upon them.
By Allah! If a single person embraces Islam at your hands (i.e. through you), that will be better for you than
 the red camels."