🌿 Hadith n. 320
320. Amir al-mu’minin, peace be upon him, replied to a man who had asked him a difficult question: Ask me in order to gain understanding but do not ask me seeking to create confusion, because the ignorant person who tries to learn is like the learned man, but the learned man who tries to create confusion is like the ignorant.

🌿 Hadith n. 321
321. ‘Abdullah ibn al-‘Abbas once advised Amir al-mu’minin peace be upon him, against his views, so he said: You have only to advise me but then I have to see (what to do); and if I act against your advice you have to follow me.

🌿 Hadith n. 322
322. When Amir al-mu’minin, peace be upon him, returned to Kufah from Siffin he passed by the residences of the Shibamites (who belonged to the tribe of Shibam) and heard the women weeping over those killed in Siffin. At that time a Shibamite, Harb ibn Shurahbil ash-Shibami, who was one of the nobles of those people, came to him, and Amir al-mu’minin, peace be upon him, said to him: Do your women have control over you as regards the weeping that I hear? Do you not refrain them from this crying? Harb began to walk with him while Amir al-mu’minin was on horseback, so Amir al-mu’minin, peace be upon him, said to him: Get back because the walking of a man like you with one like me is mischief for the ruler and disgrace for the believer.

🌿 Hadith n. 323
323. Amir al-mu’minin, peace be upon him, passed by the dead bodies of the Kharijites on the day of the battle of Nahrawan and said: Woe unto you! You have been harmed by him who deceived you. He was asked: O Amir al-mu’minin, who deceived them? Then, he replied: Satan, the deceiver, and the inner spirit that leads one to evil deceived them through passions, made it easy for them to get into sins, promised them victory and eventually threw them into the Fire.