علی بن ابی طالب، خداوند از او خشنود باد - و نام ابوطالب عبدمناف بود - ابن عبدالمطلب - و نام او شیبه بود - ابن هاشم - و نام او عمرو بود - ابن عبدمناف - و نام او مغیره بود - ابن قصی - و نام او زید بود - ابن کلاب ابن مره ابن کعب ابن لؤی ابن غالب ابن فهر ابن مالک ابن نضر ابن کنانه. او ابوالحسن بود و ابوتراب، کنیه‌ای که پیامبر ﷺ به او داد.

Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him - and the name of Abu Talib was cAbd Manaf — ibn cAbd al- A-Muttalib - and his name was Shaybah - ibn Hashim - and his name was cAmr - Ibn cAbd Manaf - and his name was al-Mughirah - ibn Qusayy - and his name was Zaid - ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Kacb ibn Lu’ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik ibn Nadr ibn Kinanah. He was Abu’l-Hasan and he was Abu Turab, a kunyah which the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave him.

مادرش فاطمه دختر أسد بن هاشم بود و او نخستین زن هاشمی بود که فرزندی هاشمی به دنیا آورد. او اسلام را پذیرفت و هجرت کرد.

His mother was Fatimah bint Asad ibn Hashim and she was the first Hashimi woman to give birth to a Hashimi child. She accepted Islam and emigrated.

علیّ، خدا از او خشنود باد، یکی از ده نفری است که بهشت برای آنان گواهی داده شده است. او برادرِ رسولِ خدا ﷺ بود، به سبب عقدِ برادری که میان مهاجران و انصار در مدینه بسته شد. او از راه ازدواج با فاطمه، بانوی زنانِ جهانیان، خدا از او خشنود باد، داماد پیامبر ﷺ بود. او از نخستین کسانی بود که اسلام آوردند، از دانشمندانِ برجسته و بزرگوار، از دلاورانِ نامدار، از کسانی که به پارسایی و زهد یاد شده‌اند، از سخنورانِ شناخته‌شده در ایراد خطبه، و کسی بود که تمامِ قرآن را از حفظ داشت و آن را پیش از پیامبر ﷺ تلاوت کرد؛ و ابوالأسود دؤلی و عبدالرحمن سُلَمی نیز هر یک به نوبه‌ی خود آن را پیش او تلاوت کردند. او نخستین خلیفه از بنی هاشم و پدرِ دو نوه‌ی (پیامبر ﷺ) بود. او بسیار زود اسلام آورد؛ بلکه ابن عباس، انس، زید بن أرقم، سلمان فارسی و گروهی دیگر گفته‌اند که او نخستین کسی بود که اسلام آورد، و برخی از ایشان نقل کرده‌اند که در این امر اجماع وجود دارد.

cAli, may Allah be pleased with him, is one of the ten for whom it is witnessed that the Garden is for them, he was the brother of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace, by the act of taking brothers (undertaken between the Muhajirun and the Ansar in Madinah); he was his son-in-law through (marriage to) Fatimah, the mistress of the women of the worlds, may Allah be pleased with her; he was one of the first to embrace Islam, one of the lordly learned ones, one of the famously courageous ones, one of those mentioned for being abstinent, one of the recognised deliverers of the khutbah, one who memorised the entire Qur’an and recited it before the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and Abu’l-Aswad ad-Du’ali and cAbd ar-Rahman as-Sulami, in turn, recited it before him. He was the first khalifah from Bani Hashim, the father of the two grandsons (of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace). He accepted Islam very early on; rather, Ibn cAbbas, Anas, Zaid ibn Arqam, Salman al-Farisi and a whole group of others said that he was the first to accept Islam, and some of them relate that there is a consensus on that.

ابو یعلی روایت کرده است که علی، خدا از او خشنود باد، گفت: «رسول خدا ﷺ در روز دوشنبه مبعوث شد و من در روز چهارشنبه اسلام آوردم.» سن او هنگام اسلام آوردن ده سال بود. گفته شده که نه سال، هشت سال بود، و حتی گفته شده که کمتر از آن بود. حسن بن زید بن حسن گفت: او به سبب کم‌سنی‌اش هرگز بت‌ها را نپرستید.

Abu Yacla narrated that cAli, may Allah be pleased with him, said, ‘The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was sent (on his prophetic mission) on Monday and I accepted Islam on the Wednesday.’ His age when he accepted Islam was ten years old. It has been said that it was nine, eight, and it has even been said that it was less than that. Al-Hasan ibn Zaid ibn al-Hasan said: He didn’t ever worship idols, because of his youth.

روایت کرد آن را ابن سعد.

Ibn Sacd narrated it.

هنگامی که او، صلی الله علیه و سلم، به او دستور داد که چند روزی پس از او در مکه بماند تا برخی امانات و سپرده‌هایی را که نزد پیامبر ﷺ گذاشته شده بود بازپس دهد، و سپس به خانواده‌اش بپیوندد، او نیز چنین کرد.

When he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, told him to remain some days behind after him in Makkah, in order to repay some things entrusted to and deposited with the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and for him then to join his family, he did that.

او با رسول الله ﷺ در بدر، احد و تمام نبردهای دیگر حضور داشت، جز تبوک، زیرا پیامبر ﷺ او را در مدینه به جانشینی خود برگزید. در همه این نبردها داستان‌های مشهوری از او نقل شده است، و پیامبر ﷺ در موارد بسیاری پرچم را به او سپرد.

He was present with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace, at Badr, Uhud and all the rest of the battles except for Tabuk, because the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, made him his deputy in Madinah. In all of the battles there are famous stories about him, and the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave him the standard on many occasions.

سعید بن المسیّب گفت: در روز اُحد، علی شانزده زخم برداشت.

Sacid ibn al-Musayyab said: On the day of Uhud, cAli received sixteen wounds.

در دو کتاب صحیح ثابت شده است که پیامبر ﷺ در روز خیبر پرچم را به او داد و خبر داد که پیروزی به دست او خواهد بود. روایات دلاوری‌ها و داستان‌های او در جنگ‌ها مشهور است.

It is well established in the two Sahih collections, ‘That he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave him the standard on the day of Khaybar and told that victory would be at his hands.’ The accounts of his bravery and stories of him in the wars are famous.

علیؓ در پیری مردی تنومند بود، پیشانی‌اش از بالا کم‌مو شده بود اما موهای فراوانی داشت، قامتی میانه و به کوتاهی گرایش داشت، شکمی برآمده داشت و ریش بسیار پرپشتی که میان دو شانه‌اش را پر می‌کرد و همچون پنبه سپید بود، و چهره‌ای بسیار گندمگون داشت.

cAli, as an old man, was stout, balding over the forehead, with much hair, of middle stature inclining to shortness, full-bellied, with an extremely full beard which filled between his two shoulders and was white as if it were cotton, and he was very tawny complexioned.

جابر بن عبدالله گفت: علی روز خیبر دروازه را بر پشت خود حمل کرد تا مسلمانان از آن بالا رفتند و آن را فتح کردند. پس از آن خواستند آن را بکشند، اما فقط چهل مرد می‌توانستند آن را حمل کنند. این روایت را ابن عساکر نقل کرده است.

Jabir ibn cAbdullah said: cAli carried the gate upon his back on the day of Khaybar until the Muslims ascended upon it and conquered it. They tried to drag it afterwards and it was only possible for forty men to carry it. Ibn cAsakir narrated it.

ابن اسحاق در «المغازی» و ابن عساکر از ابو رافع روایت کرده‌اند که: علی دروازهٔ قلعه، یعنی قلعهٔ خیبر را گرفت؛ آن را سپری برای محافظت از خود قرار داد، و آن در دستش بود تا آنکه با جنگیدن، خداوند ما را پیروز گردانید. من به یقین دیدم که هشت نفر از ما می‌کوشیدیم آن دروازه را برگردانیم، اما نتوانستیم آن را برگردانیم.

Ibn Ishaq in al-Maghazi and Ibn cAsakir narrated from Abu Rafic that: cAli took hold of the gate of the fortress, the fortress of Khaybar; he used it as a shield to protect himself, and it continued in his hand while he fought until Allah gave us the victory. I certainly saw eight of us struggling to turn that gate over and we were not able to turn it.

امام البخاری در کتاب الادب روایت کرده است که سهل بن سعد گفت: نامی که علی، رضی الله عنه، بیش از همه دوست داشت «ابو تراب» (یعنی «خاکی» یا به تحت‌اللفظ «پدر خاک») بود و به این لقب خوشحال می‌شد. هیچ‌کس او را ابو تراب ننامید جز پیامبر ﷺ. علتش این بود که روزی علی با فاطمه خشمگین شد، بیرون رفت و در کنار دیوار مسجد دراز کشید. سپس پیامبر ﷺ آمد و دید که پشت او پر از خاک است. پیامبر ﷺ شروع کرد به پاک کردن خاک از پشت او و فرمود: «بنشین ابو تراب.» او پانصد و هشتاد و شش حدیث از پیامبر ﷺ روایت کرده است، که خداوند بر او و خاندانش درود و سلام فرستد.

Al-Bukhari narrated in al-Adab that Sahl ibn Sacd said: The name that cAli, may Allah be pleased with him, loved the most was Abu Turab (‘Dusty One’ or literally ‘Father of Dust’), and he rejoiced in being called by it. No-one named him Abu Turab except for the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. That was because one day, when he was angry with Fatimah, he went out and laid down against the wall of the mosque, and then the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came and his back was covered in dust. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, began to rub the dust from his back saying, ‘Sit down Abu Turab.’ He related five hundred and eighty-six hadith from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace.

او سه پسرش، الحسن، الحسین و محمد بن الحنفیه، از او روایت کردهاند، و ابن مسعود، ابن عمر، ابن عباس، ابن الزبیر، ابوموسی، ابوسعید، زید بن ارقم، جابر بن عبدالله، ابوامامه، ابوهریره، و شمار بسیاری دیگر از صحابه و تابعین، خداوند از همه ایشان خشنود باد.

His three sons, al-Hasan, al-Hussein and Muhammad ibn al- Hanafiyyah, related from him, and Ibn Mascud, Ibn TJmar, Ibn cAbbas, Ibn az-Zubayr, Abu Musa, Abu Sacid, Zaid ibn Arqam, Jabir ibn cAbdullah, Abu Imamah, Abu Hurayrah, and a great number of other Companions and Followers, may Allah be pleased with all of them.